Best empathy & sympathy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy, which led to guilt, as well as suffering. She looked at Gavin, supine, unconcerned, contented, and thought that perhaps there was something to being a sociopath. If you didn't have a heart, it couldn't be broken.”

Feelings Understanding Emotion Heartbreak Empathy Sympathy Feelings Of Weakness

Book:Terrorscape

Source: Terrorscape

“A funeral is like a little game, really. You have to just play along and say the right thing and behave the right way until it’s over. Be pleasant but don’t smile too much; be sad but don’t overdo it or the family will feel worse than they already do. Be hopeful but don’t let your optimism be taken as a lack of empathy or an inability to deal with the reality. Because if anybody was to be truly honest there would be a lot of arguments, finger-pointing, tears, snot, and screaming.”

Life Reality Death Society Honesty Empathy Optimism Sympathy Funerals

Book:The Book of Tomorrow

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

“Love exceeds all other emotions because it dares to take the passion to give oneself to another and turn it into a decision. Therefore, should the feeling of love ever find itself fleeting, the decision to love won’t.”

Love Passion Decision Compassion Sacrifice Empathy Sympathy Self Sacrifice

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.”

Care Success Kindness Fire Fame Empathy Caring Esteem Richelle Goodrich Warmth Sympathy Richelle

Book:Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“I'm existentially allergic to opulence, every soft bed feels like a betrayal - expensive meals scream of starving children.”

Poverty Empathy Charity Helping Others Inequality Wealthy Sympathy Starvation Rich And Poor World Hunger

Book:Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.”

“In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“To curse is animal, to console, human.”

Goodness Empathy Curse Pearls Of Wisdom Sympathy Console Empathetic

Book:Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“A long silence filled the room. There was a strong feeling of sadness and deep emotions for her and me. I could not utter a single word after that statement, so I decided to 'be with her' in my silence rather than in my words.”

Humanity Grief Compassion Sadness Empathy Sympathy Solidarity Consolation Human Connection

Book:Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Exile

Source: Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Exile

“People are my agenda. Following that, nothing follows that.”

People Care Sacrifice Empathy Concern Priorities Sympathy Agenda

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t attempt to put people in a box that you have not spent some time in yourself. For once you do, you’ll rather quickly come to understand that people weren’t built for boxes. Rather, they were built to break them.”

People Empathy Prejudice Boxes Sympathy Bias Stereotyping Confining

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“People need people who show that they care.”

People Care Compassion Empathy Caring Richelle Goodrich Richelle E Goodrich Need Sympathy

Book:Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“There is very little deliberate wickedness in the world. The stupidity of our selfishness gives much the same results indeed, but in the ethical laboratory it shows a different nature.”

People World Humanity Empathy Ethics Stupidity Selfishness Sympathy Morals Wickedness

Book:The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll

Source: The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll

“Listen with a heart, but answer with a soul.”

Love Wisdom Humanity Learning Empathy Forgiveness Respect Commitment Sympathy Philanthropy

Author:Oscar Auliq-Ice

“On my journey from the fantastical to the practical, spirituality has gone from being a mystical experience to something very ordinary and a daily experience. Many don’t want this, instead they prefer spiritual grandeur, and I believe that is what keeps enlightenment at bay. We want big revelations of complexity that validates our perceptions of the divine. What a let down it was to Moses when God spoke through a burning bush! But that is exactly the simplicity of it all. Our spiritual life is our ordinary life and it is very grounded in every day experience. For me, it is the daily practice of kindness, mindfulness, happiness, and peace.”

“Your world is just as empty as your heart!”

World Love Life Heart Peace Sadness Empathy Emotions Empty Heartache Sympathy Full Feeling Empty Just About

Author:Cass van Krah

“The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.”

Source: Healology

“If you don't grieve when others are suffering, it's not right to call you a human being.”

Humans Suffering Humanity Human Beings Grief Empathy Sympathy

Author:Sa'dī

“Be the person you needed when you needed help.”

Inspirational Inspirational Quotes Company Compassion Inspirational Life Empathy Sympathy Companionship Sympathetic Empathetic

Author:Rain Cooper

“I could really use someone else's smile today.”

Helping Compassion Kindness Empathy Smile Helping Others Richelle Goodrich Sympathy Richelle Sharing

Book:Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“In each other's horror let us be lamp, In each other's veins let us be current. In each other's storms let us stand anchor, Amidst vice and malice let us bear sentience.”

Community Kindness Empathy Helping Others Oneness Service Of Humanity Sympathy Social Work Neighborly

Book:Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Most potent medicine we have is each other.”

Together Compassion Kindness Empathy Medicine Humanist Sympathy Inclusion Sufism Sufi

Book:Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Kindness is the lesser side of ourselves subjugated to something greater than ourselves.”

Love God Care Christian Compassion Kindness Empathy Sympathy Surrendered Subjugated

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Compassion, kindness, empathy, sympathy, mercy, and understanding are six connected values that ‎should be implanted in the young generation, as they are what motivates people to help and stand ‎for each other. A heart that is filled with mercifulness is a heart that will help its society and the whole ‎world to continue, improve, and thrive.‎”

Kids Values Understanding Education Compassion Kindness Teaching Empathy Mercy Sympathy

Author:Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

“That was the thing about her. When you told her about an incident where you so badly screwed up, half expecting her to laugh at you in amusement, half anticipating a smirk of disgust, she would hardly express her pity or maybe she did express what she felt, for she would just nod her head, gesturing you to go on... As if it's normal... As if you're normal.”

Love Life Kind Different Feelings Understanding Kindness Sweet Normal Empathy Understood Smile Pity Sympathy Understand Her She Pretty Misfit Expressions

Author:Sanhita Baruah

“We are born with the innate capacity to express empathy. Experiencing our own cuts and bruises, encountering our own difficulties and disappointments, expands our cognitive world and rouses the universal desire to understand and comfort other people in pain.”

Pain Compassion Failure Empathy Disappointment Sympathy Learning From Mistakes Failure Quotes Difficulties Painful Memories Difficulties Of Life Learning From Experiences Learning From The Past Learning From Adversity Learning From Our Struggles Learning From Failures Diffic

Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.”

Compassion Empathy Pity Richelle Goodrich Sympathy Richelle Understanding Others

Book:Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.”

Compassion Power Empathy Luck Fortune Sympathy

Author:Dennis Lehane

“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and over-mastered by fate had been borne in upon her with appalling force.”

Compassion Empathy Maturity Sympathy Discipleship

Book:The Scarlet Pimpernel

Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel

“I lowered my hands and stared at the tiny horse, considering his question. I couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry for. There were plenty of kids I envied. There were others I achingly admired, but that might simply be another form of jealousy. Then there were those I feared, dreaded. And the worst of them, the man who shamed me. I could see my father’s angry features looming over my mother. I could clearly picture her beside him in his truck, cowering against the door while he belittled and assaulted her. I guess I did know someone I felt sorry for.”

Compassion Empathy Envy Pity Jealousy Richelle Goodrich Sympathy Richelle

Book:Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

Source: Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

“I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.”

Compassion Empathy Sympathy Morganville Vampires

Book:Lord of Misrule

Source: Lord of Misrule

“More than prayer, presence is the best religion.”

Religious Compassion Empathy Caring Helping Others Companion Sympathy Altruism Presence Sharing

Book:Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Consider it commonplace, the self-proclaimed empaths who cannot empathize with those individuals most antithetical to their politics.”

Understanding Compassion Empathy Opposition Bigotry Sympathy Commonplace Empath Opposing Views False Empathy

Author:Criss Jami

“Where empathy fails, charity fills.”

Love Compassion Empathy Charity Sympathy Fail Empathetic Empath Empathic Fill

Author:Richie Norton

“If you have never suffered through it, then you don’t understand it. There are no exceptions.”

Life Lessons Compassion Empathy Experience Trials Richelle Goodrich Richelle E Goodrich Sympathy Understanding Others

Book:Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“The Difference Between Sympathy, Empathy and Compassion: If someone was stuck in a quagmire: Sympathy would be: sitting on the side, feeling sorry for them. Empathy would be: getting into the quagmire with them, and trying to find a way out for both of you. Compassion would be: keeping your own feet on solid ground and staying in a state of love while you reach out a hand or branch to help them to get out.”

Compassion Empathy Sympathy Compassion Quotes Empathy For Others Compassion Wisdom Empathy Quotes

Author:Odille Remmert

“Being compassionate does not mean refraining from telling people, when they are, that they are to blame for their own suffering.”

Suffering Responsibility Compassion Self Help Empathy Blame Sympathy Frank Straightforward Heartless

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“She's the sister of bigotry and the daughter of tyranny; she imposes her own emotions onto others, then falsely calls it 'empathy'.”

Compassion Empathy Emotions Tyranny Bigotry Sympathy False Empathy False Sympathy False Compassion False Emotions

Author:Criss Jami

“We live with an almost superstitious belief in our own differences, she said, and Luis has shown that those differences are not the result of some divine mystery but are merely the consequence of our lack of empathy, which if we had it would enable us to see that in fact we are all the same.”

Compassion Empathy Sympathy Difference

Book:Kudos

Source: Kudos

“We often worsen someone’s pain by pitying them openly.”

Suffering Compassion Empathy Mercy Pity Sympathy Compassionate Pitiful Condolence Feel Sorry For

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Moral growth corresponds with people’s ability to see the world from an ever-increasing number of perspectives and act accordingly.”

Compassion Morality Empathy Sympathy Empathy For Others Moral Growth

Book:Co-Human Harmony: Using Our Shared Humanity to Bridge Divides

Source: Co-Human Harmony: Using Our Shared Humanity to Bridge Divides

“While a person can accept that seemingly impenetrable obstacles blocked other people’s path, each of us hurt in an exclusive manner, rendering us colorblind to the elongated bands of hard times that loom over other people’s promising zodiacs.”

Compassion Empathy Sympathy

Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“A child is not born with affection, adoration, and kindheartedness. A person accrues empathy and sympathy from experiencing our own pain.”

Compassion Empathy Sympathy Compassion Quotes Empathy For Others Empathy Quotes

Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.”

Pain Suffering Compassion Empathy Sympathy Self Centeredness

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“My love will be complete at the point I realize that my love will never be complete.”

Love Compassion Sacrifice Empathy Concern Caring Sympathy Selfless Loving

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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