Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Rogers

When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.

Carl Rogers

Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

Carl Rogers

So, as you can readily see from what I have said thus far, a creative, active, sensitive, accurate, empathic, nonjudgmental listening is for me terribly important in a relationship. It is important for me to provide it; it has been extremely important, especially at certain times in my life, to receive it. I feel that I have grown within myself when I have provided it; I am very sure that I have grown and been released and enhanced when I have received this kind of listening.

I have a lot of empathy for them.

Kathie Gifford

I have been interviewed a lot. I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out lies. So I feel for them, I feel their pain. I know what that is like.

I don't think you have to be from a region to have empathy for what people are going through.

Sissy Spacek

He is just fantastic. As Ruth Fowler, I had to hate him while we were filming. And when I saw the film, I had such empathy for him.

David Miliband

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

Charles de Lint

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

David Hume

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.

Charles Kimball

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

Eckhart Tolle

When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Brian Tracy

Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.

Jane Fonda

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

Derrick Bell

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Daniel Goleman

Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

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.

Empathy is the antidote to shame,

If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.

Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

Deb Caletti

Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.

Adam Smith

The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.

Spouses have worries about their spending habits, financial commitments and lifestyles. Meanwhile, they know they need to show empathy and support.

My prayer is that each of us look inside our own hearts. It takes a willingness to pause before we make an assumption. I think all this erupts because we don't wait -- we react. And the willingness to have empathy and just imagine what it would be like to be in someone else's skin -- that's my prayer.

Alice Miller

Empathy grows as we learn.

Alexander Pope

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

Andre Gide

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

Cynthia Nixon

I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.