Best Empathy Quotes

#1. My worst vice is also my best vice. It's my empathy and my love for people-it can wear me out. I rarely can turn a person in need down or because I love people, I love energy.

Meredith Brooks

#2. You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Those most likely to befriend strangers, in other words, are those who have been strangers themselves. The best way to grow empathy for those who are lost is to know what it means to be lost yourself.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#3. The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have sympathy.

Ashly Lorenzana

#4. Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.

Michael Greger

#5. Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find.

Bob Burg

#6. The best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ...

John Geddes

#7. I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.

Tony Bennett

#8. His words had caused her to laugh, cry, yell, throw things across the room, and feel sympathy, empathy, anger, arousal and disgust. It was the best non-novel she had ever read.

Ella Dominguez

#9. Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.

Meryl Streep

#11. Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.

Paul Bloom

#12. the whole point of literature, I think, is that it's the best technology we have for communicating what another person's life feels like from the inside.

Garth Greenwell

#13. One of the things that I think audio is best at is creating empathy.

Alex Blumberg

#14. Walking a mile in someone else's shoes isn't as much about the walk or the shoes; it's to be able to think like they think, feel what they feel, and understand why they are who and where they are. Every step is about empathy.

Toni Sorenson

#15. Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.

Bruce D. Perry

#16. I believe reading books is one of the best ways to gain real empathy for people different from ourselves, and helping boys develop empathy for girls is a cause worth fighting for.

Shannon Hale

#17. The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you "make" the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#19. What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.

Tim Kreider

#20. A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. By "empathy," some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.

Paul Bloom

#23. It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.

Jo Coudert

#24. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.

Adam Smith

#25. The biology of empathy allows us to comprehend our connection to each other, to other living things, and to the physical world that supports life.

George Lakoff