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Tag Name "Empathy" (602)

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Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.
Marjane Satrapi
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Rollo May
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Empathy comes from being empathized with.
Stanley Greenspan
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I have tremendous empathy for people who are faced with any kind of a chronic problem. Sometimes when we're in this situation, it's as though our mind has us believe that if we ruminate about the pain we'll find a way out.
Cheryl Richardson
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We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
Ira Glass
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We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...
Randall Jarrell
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Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.
Brené Brown
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Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.
Jesse Ventura
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If a character is honest with a reader, then (hopefully) that will engage the reader's empathy centers she'll meet that openness with acceptance, and they'll forge a nourishing and meaningful bond as the book continues.
Joshua Mohr
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He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than could be put into words.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer.
Richard Flanagan
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I think when you've gone through a betrayal in life then when somebody's been betrayed you can talk to the person about it. If your husband's been unfaithful to you, you know what that's like, you know how that feels. You can share true empathy with someone.
Kathie Lee Gifford
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I hope they're present in their lives and feel some kind of empathy. I think a lot of the mistakes that have been made in the world have been through a lack of empathy. If you can identify with someone else and empathise with someone else, then activism is a short step away, she explained in an interview with Parade.
Susan Sarandon
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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
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Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any reference to George Bush, people only nod to Berlusconi, saying,We understand how it is - we have one, too.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.
Brené Brown
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The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: anima-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.
Christopher Hitchens
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Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
Neil Gaiman
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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.
Eric Fischl
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The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.
Barack Obama
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Animals should have rights and should be treated with compassion and empathy we are their caretakers. If you don't have it in your heart to help them, then just leave them alone and do no harm.
Katie Cleary
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau
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