Empathy the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

1. I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who’s having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another’s viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
Alex Flinn

2. No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all. Integrity is everything
Anonymous

3. When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon

4. You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion
Anonymous

5. It’s the lack of empathy that makes it very easy for us to plunge into wars. It’s the lack of empathy that allows us to ignore the homeless on the streets
Barack Obama

6. I believe in love. I believe it transforms, transports, and transcends. I believe it fine-tunes goodness, solidifies strength, ripens resolve, eradicates rage, alleviates stress, and elevates empathy
Lisa Kogan

7. Empathy is…seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another
Anonymous

8. There’s a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of ‘soul force’ – something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it’s writing a check or digging a well.
Sue Monk Kidd

9. Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.
Dan Chaon

10. Compassion, empathy and love are the real pillars we need to build with in ourselves to become human.
Loknath

11. When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we’ve loved others and whether they’ve loved us
Oprah Winfrey

12. Sometimes we get so caught up in our own problems, we fail to realize that others have them too
Anonymous

13. We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know
Carl Rogers

14. Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding
Bill Bullard

15. I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
Roger Ebert

16. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Harper Lee

17. The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.
Anonymous

18. Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked – but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
Laura Linney

19. Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
H. Jackson Brown

20. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou

21. Empathy is when a person accurately communicates that they see another’s intentions and emotional state. It means watching our child’s frustration and focusing on how life feels in that little child’s body, while putting our own anger and agenda into the background.
Andrea Nair

22. Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be OK, but acknowledging that it is not.
Sheryl Sandberg

23. Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Seneca

24. There are two types of people–those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.
Frederick L Collins

25. Empathy is a choice, and it is a vulnerable choice because, in order to connect with you, I have to connect with something in myself that knows that feeling.
Brene Brown

26. Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle.
Plato

27. If you find yourself saying 'But I'm just being honest', chances are you've just been unkind. Honesty doesn't heal. Empathy does.
Dan Waldschmidt

28. Have compassion and empathy in your heart. Many people are suffering deep emotional anguish beneath the surface of their lives, and smile even as they hurt inside.
Jim Palmer

29. Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of “you’re not alone.
Anonymous

30. Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.
F. Scott Fitzgeral

31. Never underestimate the pain of a person Because in all honesty, everyone hurts Some people just hide it better than others
Anonymous

32. Be somebody who makes everybody feel like somebody
Anonymous

33. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
Barbara Kingsolver

34. Instead of putting others in their place put yourself in their place
Anonymous

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35. Empathy. We must understand before we judge
Anonymous

36. Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
Daniel H. Pink

37. True empathy requires that you step outside your own emotions to view things entirely from the perspective of the other person
Anonymous

38. Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It’s the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too
Frederick Buechner

39. The world needs people that care more about each other and less about themselves
Anonymous

40. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy and a grace in forgiveness
Anonymous

41. If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.
Karen Armstrong

42. Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.
George McGovern

43. Peace equals ability to handle conflict, With empathy, nonviolence and creativity.
Johan Galtung

44. I have absolutely no empathy for camels. … I didn’t care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don’t like people. It’s not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
Rachel Weisz

45. Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.
Leslie Jamison

46. There will be no more empathy. Armed for Apocalypse
Anonymous

47. I am older and have more control over my empathy,' said Qwan. 'That's why I didn't throw up.' And having said that, he threw up.
Eoin Colfer

48. Empathy is experiencing others feelings and thoughts while remaining objective. It also requires that you are able to communicate to someone your understanding of his/her thoughts and feelings to help them better understand themselves
Anonymous

49. I don’t need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost ’s observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person’s random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the “alienated artist” cut off from everybody who isn’t, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal .
Randall Jarrell

50. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung

51. Empaths be like: I don’t just listen to your words. I listen to your use of words, your tone, your body movements, your eyes, your subtle facial expressions. I interpret your silence – I can hear everything you don’t say in words
Anonymous

52. Empathy is the essential building block for compassion. We have to sense what another person is going through, what they're feeling, in order to spark compassion in us.
Daniel Goleman

53. Empathy we are all facing our own greatful challenges whether my problem seem big or small to you please try not to compare they are mine they are real to me
Anonymous

54. Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
Anonymous

55. The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Meryl Streep

56. I am always willing to put myself in someone else’s shoes. Unless they’re wearing Crocs. Then they can go fuck themselves
Anonymous

57. There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
Bryant McGill

58. I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln

59. Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.
Cornel West

60. I would feel that aggravates the situation, … his lack of empathy, his lack of remorse.
David Castro

61. Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Alice Miller

62. Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don’t have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can’t stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there’s too much stimulation.
Temple Grandin

63. If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford

64. I think that’s the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.
Michelle Rodriguez

65. Empathy is walking a mile in somebody else's moccasins. Sympathy is being sorry their feet hurt.
Rebecca O'Donnell