Quotes About Empathy For Others

#1. In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

Erica Jong

#2. Healthy self-care means finding fulfillment so that you have energy, love, and empathy for others. Finding the middle ground means realizing that it is not an either-or situation - you are neither full of self nor drained of self.

Karyl McBride

#3. The ability to reason is what gives us our capacity to have empathy for others, to value life itself. Our ability to judge right from wrong, to value all life, is only possible through our ability to reason. Reason is what powers morality.

Terry Goodkind

#4. Because of the value placed on individual materialistic success in our society, we are surrounded by people primarily interested in getting something from others. Their attitudes are characterised by selfishness and a lack of empathy for others.

Tim Crawshaw

#5. Have greater compassion and empathy for others, and don't judge anyone, because you have no idea what's going on in their life.

Sandra Vischer

#6. Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able to generate genuine compassion for them. We must work at this continually.

Dalai Lama XIV

#7. I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.

J.K. Rowling

#8. the heart of care is empathy, a feeling and enactment of intentional regard for the well-being of others and by extension the support systems (e.g., universal health care and a living wage) that insure well-being.

Donna King

#9. Don't take me for granted. I know more than I let on, see more than you realize., and care more than you can imagine.

Charles F. Glassman

#10. Empathy plays a crucial role in the reduction of stress from the moment of birth.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

#11. Walk with me for a while, my friend - you in my shoes, I in yours - and then let us talk.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. Most survivors are cope-aholics, people who cope with whatever is thrown at them without reliance on others. They do not seek sympathy for their pain and feel undeserving if it is offered. They are especially adverse to sympathy from others.

Renee Fredrickson

#13. Empathy and joy of life are closely connected. For most of us, deep and intense moments of happiness are often, if not always, tied to deep and intense contact with others.
Training our empathetic abilities is therefore also training joy of life.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#14. All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to maintain a perspective of empathy for ourselves and others, even under trying conditions.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#15. Understanding that you can't truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate.
Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually.

Tim Minchin

#16. Contrary to the common misconception that loving yourself equates to being self-absorbed and lacking empathy or consideration for others, the true meaning of self-love is about caring, respecting and knowing yourself, taking responsibility for your life, and ultimately, your happiness.

Miya Yamanouchi

#17. Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Rogers

#18. When you learn to feel the pain of an ant, you will truly learn to love this world.

Debasish Mridha

#19. We give empathy to others for our own benefit.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#20. A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

David Simon

#21. Further, bearing up under our own burdens can help us develop a reservoir of empathy for the problems others face.

L. Whitney Clayton

#22. When we give and receive empathy, transformation occurs.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

#23. Before hurting anyone, especially those who cannot protect themselves, feel their pain with your heart. Take care of them as your little child.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening.

Martina Boone

#25. Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#26. Your tears for others will float you closer toward God.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.

Emile Gaboriau

#28. Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self will weaken your heart, soul connectivity with others

Paul Isaacs

#29. For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.

Criss Jami

#30. Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#31. Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children ... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

Keith Ablow

#33. Empathy is a quality today that we need more than ever. Throughout his life Jesus showed empathy and care for others on a level never seen before. From him we learn that Gods ways of service to others before obsession with self is the path he wants us to walk on and deep down we know it.

Tim Crawshaw

#34. An empath is capable of taking on the grief of another in order to lessen their suffering. In order to not be consumed with pain, an empath should have an outlet for that pain lest they lose themselves in feeling for others.

Donna Lynn Hope

#35. The author points out that, with life in provincial Washington difficult for those not of independent means, Adams and his wife undervalued the social connections that others found vital. They often made an impression as distant and prideful.

Paul C. Nagel

#36. [ ... ] art instills the fundamental moral lesson: That you aren't the center of the universe. That others weren't created for your benefit. That they are just as real as you, with equal claimes to dignity and understanding.

William Deresiewicz

#37. Instead of belittling, judging, or getting angry at others or at yourself, develop empathy for yourself and others. Remind yourself: Just like me, this person is seeking happiness in their life.

Kayla Moore

#38. Empathy allows us to enter the world of another. It allows us to take a mental vacation from ourselves.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

#39. We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#40. If I had an ear 2 confide in
I would cry among my treasured friends
But who do u know that stops that long
to help another carry on
The world moves fast and it would rather pass u by
than 2 stop and c what makes u cry

Tupac Shakur

#41. Most people need, at least, a very strong ethical training. They tend to lack basic moral. And it's a waste of time to teach very important universal rules to someone that doesn't understand the meaning of helping others or feeling empathy for them.

Robin Sacredfire