Empathy Quotes

"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."

- Alice Miller

"Children learn and listen more willingly when they are met with kindness, empathy and patience; when their core need for connection or attachment is met."

- Vince Gowmon

"Children’s emotions are as real as yours. Just because they might get sad over the colour of their cup, does not make their feelings any less real."

- Rebekah Lipp

"Children first realize they can make a difference when parents listen, then respond with sensitivity."

- Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer

"When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love."

- Franz Schubert

"I adore art… when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear."

- Giuseppe Verdi

"Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second."

- Maurice Ravel

"These people are members of the community that care about where they live. So what I hear when I’m being yelled at is people caring loudly at me."

- Leslie Knope

"People don’t care what you know until they know you care."

- Corrie Pitzer

"It’s very isolating when you think you are the only one struggling."

- Adam Kay

"Emphasize the importance of empathizing with candidates to create an enticing process."

- Andrew MacAskill

"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."

- To Kill a Mockingbird

"Emotions are like waves. We can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf."

- Jonatan Mårtensson

"Children's emotions are as real as yours. Just because they might get sad over the colour of their cup, does not make their feelings any less real."

- Rebekah Lipp

"I think that all human relationships are like a two-way street. You give and take. I think that’s especially important in grief. You give to your patients and their family members, but you can also take these beautiful, terrible moments."

- Sandra Menendez

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

- Robert Frost

"As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand."

- Ernest Hemingway

"There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment."

- Robert Frank

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

- David Levithan

"Fathers can seem powerful and overwhelming to their daughters. Let her see your soft side. Express your feelings and reactions. Tell her where you came from and how you got there. Let her see that you have had fears, failures, anxious times, hurts, just like hers, even though you may look flawless to her."

- Stella Chess

"Anxiety is a living body / Poised beside us like a shadow. / It is the last creature standing, / The only beast who loves us / Enough to stay."

- Amanda Gorman

"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words."

- Roy T. Bennett

"There is only one rule for being a good talker—learn to listen."

- Christopher Morley

"Sellers who listen to buyers carefully and then give them the missing ingredients—those are the ones who stand out."

- Deb Calvert

"The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn’t it? I don’t know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts."

- Naruto

"Your empathy and guidance plant the seeds of change in the hearts of those you touch."

"anger is the bodyguard of sadness"

"Compassion and empathy sound like excuses to a perfectionist."

"Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Sometimes the strongest hand is the one reaching out for another."

"The world needs your empathy, darling. See things from other perspectives, lend a listening ear, and spread kindness like wildfire."