We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.
Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.
An empath is capable of taking on the grief of another in order to lessen their suffering. In order to not be consumed with pain, an empath should have an outlet for that pain lest they lose themselves in feeling for others.
It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.
If the heartbeat is a vital sign of physical health, anger is the vital sign of emotional health. Anger protects the self in all relationships. It is rage that is damaging.
Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.
It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
What made me empathic was my depressions.
I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.
Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people.
Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
The agony of the empath is feeling their pain but being unable to save them from it.
The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.
Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing with the fears and unmet needs that provide the impetus for people to attack each other. Being aware of these feelings and needs, peop...
Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people to empathize with you.
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.
As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.
You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they're just on another planet.
A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.
