Empathy Quotes

"I think that brown people are attracted to rock music because it speaks on the spectrum of pain that brown people are predisposed to."

- Princess Nokia

"One rage every three months is permitted. Try not to hurt anyone who doesn’t deserve it."

- Ron Swanson

"Melancholy is … the most legitimate of all the poetical tones."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master."

- Epictetus

"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Ideas excite me, empathy grounds and centers me."

- Satya Nadella

"Empathy is a choice. It’s a vulnerable choice because in order to connect with you, I have to connect with something in myself that knows that feeling."

- Brené Brown

"Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"We are trying to hide our feelings, but we forgot that our eyes speak."

- Juice WRLD

"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Owning the facts is a prerequisite to leadership. But there are millions of technocrats out there with lots of facts in their quivers and little leadership potential. In many cases, what they are missing is empathy. No one is a leader who can’t put himself or herself in the other person’s shoes. Empathy and expertise command respect."

- William Pagonis

"What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met."

- David Levithan

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

- Atticus Finch

"Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't."

- Johnny Depp

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones."

- Keith Richards

"Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t."

- Gene Simmons

"Music is the emotional life of most people."

- Leonard Cohen

"When you're happy, you enjoy the music but when you're sad, you understand the lyrics."

- Frank Ocean

"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another."

- Alfred Adler

"We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know."

- Carl Rogers

"Having to unpack my suitcase after vacation is like the ultimate emotional baggage."

"A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile."

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say."

"Fonts elicit distinct emotions and associations."

"I know you’re hurting — and that’s valid. I’m here to listen or help in any way I can."

"I can imagine that was very difficult."

"You don’t have to explain yourself to me. I believe you."

"The role of a nurse is to see the soul of another and to put themselves in that person's shoes."

"Never apologize for being sensitive or emotional."