Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.
You don't have to go through someone's pain to understand it. Empathy is enough.
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.
A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.
I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.
I remember sitting in the Beth Shalom synagogue in Cambridge on the night of Kol Nidre. Peter Lipton, a friend and an atheist philosopher, was giving a sermon on the theme of “atonement:” “If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehum...
Hatred has no place in your heart. Empathy does.
We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
Compassion, empathy and love are the real pillars we need to build with in ourselves to become human.
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.
