for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
Milan KunderaTags: compassion empathy
I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.
Jodi PicoultAs we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.
Martha C. NussbaumTags: empathy
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
Susan SarandonIf we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.
Frederick BuechnerTags: imagination love empathy understanding
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
Mahatma GandhiTags: empathy religion understanding
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 StreepSome people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.
Dean KoontzTags: friendship compassion empathy character intellect
Can I see anothers woe,
And not be in sorrow too.
Can I see anothers grief,
And not seek for kind relief.
- On Anothers Sorrow
Tags: compassion empathy
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Joseph Fort NewtonTags: inspirational love misattributed compassion men empathy hate hatred understanding sympathy intolerance tolerance culture separation racism bigotry bridges culture-wars cultures misattributed-to-isaac-newton walls
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