What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.
Tim KreiderTags: empathy understanding
Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person—flawed, complex, striving—you’ve reached beyond stereotype.
Hazel RochmanTags: books empathy stories literature prejudice community racism stereotype message communicate banned-book
The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: success kindness empathy fame sympathy fire caring warmth care esteem richelle richelle-goodrich
I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess’s room.
The look of sincere sympathy that used to be on their faces when they made eye contact with me is gone.
It has been replaced by shear helplessness as they quickly walk past me with their heads tilted down and to the right.
I feel like Bud Fox walking into his office with the Securities and Exchange Commission awaiting him.
Tags: empathy sympathy helplessness hospital-scene
Maybe your empathy's just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the other person feels but you're only feeling yourself, maybe you're even worse than me. Or maybe we're all just guessing.
Peter WattsEach person you meet
is an aspect of yourself,
clamoring for love.
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One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day.
Doris Kearns GoodwinTags: compassion empathy confidence personal-growth leadership
Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal position, or was I going to woman up? I went into fetal position on the bed to think about this. Fetal position turned out to be very comfortable.
Maureen JohnsonTags: empathy life-advice rory-deveaux
seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred AdlerTags: inspirational empathy emotional passionate
There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
Bryant McGillTags: intelligence kindness empathy
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