Quotes About Empathizing

#1. Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.

Jodi Picoult

#2. The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

James Mercer

#3. There's no reason why a society consisting of rational beings capable of empathizing with each other, complete and having no natural reason to compete, should have a government, laws, or leaders.

Valerie Solanas

#4. I'm so sorry, Jace." His eyes gleamed in the darkness. "I don't understand why mundanes always apologize for things that aren't their fault." "I'm not apologizing. It's a way of - empathizing. Of saying that I'm sorry you're unhappy.

Cassandra Clare

#5. I'll have these internal moments where I'm empathizing with someone else or feeling something myself, but I'm like, "How can I see the best in this situation?" Sometimes those are the moments where you can have the most clarity.

Zooey Deschanel

#6. Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#7. To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

Andy Greenwald

#8. The strangest thing was, as beautiful as I found her to be, she admitted that she wasn't always comfortable in her own skin. I found that hard to believe until she explained herself. All of the sudden I was not so much in awe of her but found myself empathizing with her.

Michele Jennae

#9. In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means 'I have experienced that on my own skin.' Meaning, I have also been burned or scarred in this way, and I know exactly what you're going through.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#10. Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

Brian Posehn

#11. I remember more and see more than you, she said. And will for a considerable time. We do not speak to many, and the spirit of horses does not reveal himself to anyone. There is magic in your bones. You must reckon with it.

Katherine Arden

#12. In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Tony Buzan

#13. Strange evolution, that people have come to believe
that we are its greatest achievement
when really we're just a collection of cells overrating themselves

Dave Matthews Band

#14. Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.

Naum Gabo

#15. Levin resolved the first question at once, with extraordinary ease, though it had seemed so difficult to him before.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.

J.K. Rowling

#17. There is nothing eternal but that which loves and can be loved, and love is ever climbing towards the consummation when such shall be the universe, imperishable, divine.

George MacDonald

#18. The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.

Nicholson Baker

#19. It makes no difference whether you worship God, Jehovah, Allah, Mohammed, Buddha, Christ or Krishna- it is still and always one and the same God.

Satyananda Saraswati

#20. Zeus is the king, right? (Simone)
He thinks he is most days. Personally, I think he's a pompous ass who should be bitch-slapped by Hera at least once in his existence. (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#21. A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.

Hosea Ballou