Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Charles Kimball

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

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Ben Harper

There's something in everyone only they know.

Ben Harper

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

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.

Cornel West

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

David Eagleman

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Dada Vaswani

Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.

Imelda Staunton

We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

Tommy Amaker

Well, we know their staff, we have empathy for what they're going through, what they've gone through all season.

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.

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.

David Simon

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

Anna Quindlen

The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.

Andre Gide

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

Trai Byers

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

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.