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Empathy Quotes
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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. (Quote by - Alice Miller)
The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl. (Quote by - [Adeline] Virginia Woolf)
I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period. (Quote by - Kathy Bates)
We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.(Quote by - Barack Obama)
Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit. (Quote by - Thich Nhat Hanh)
Can we truly expect those who aim to exploit us to be trusted to educate us?(Quote by - Eric Schaub)
The biggest conspiracy has always been the fact that there is no conspiracy. Nobody's out to get you. Nobody gives a shit whether you live or die. There, you feel better now?(Quote by - Dennis Miller)
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. (Quote by - Plato)
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss. (Quote by - Anderson Cooper)
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other-it doesn't matter who it is-and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
You may not be interested in war, but war is very interested in you. (Quote by - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
Some 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. (Quote by - Dean Koontz)
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story. (Quote by - Flannery O'Connor)
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra. (Quote by - E.M. Forster)