Empathy is necessary in interpersonal relationships and in general, throughout society. Empathy means learning to put yourself in someone else's “shoes”. Understand your emotions, understand why you think how you do it and know how you feel at all times and why. This can greatly facilitate personal relationships and also, If all people were empathetic, we would live in a better world.
Empathy is different from sympathy. Sympathy is an affective inclination towards others and empathy, as we have said above, is to understand the feelings of others. Empathy helps to create more stable and deeper emotional bonds. Empathy can be learned because it is a skill that requires will and training.
Empathy phrases
Next we are going to show you some phrases about empathy that will help you better understand what empathy means and why it is important in your life and in everyone's.
- When people speak, listen fully. Most people never listen.-Ernest Hemingway
- Look with the eyes of another, listen with the eyes of another and feel with the heart of another.-Alfred Adler
- We have two ears and a mouth to hear twice as much as we speak.-Epithet
- As for adversity, you would hardly bear it if you didn't have a friend who suffered for you more than yourself. - Epithet
- The most precious gift we can give to others is our presence. When our mindfulness embraces those we love, they bloom like flowers.-Thich Nhat Hanh
- I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to show it.- Maya Angelou
- Empathy is simply listening, retaining judgment, connecting emotionally, and communicating that incredibly healing message that you are not alone. - Brene Brown
- The highest form of knowledge is empathy. - Bill Bullard
- If you don't have empathy and effective personal relationships, no matter how smart you are, you're not going to get very far.-Daniel Goleman
- The hardest thing in the world is being aware of someone else's pain. - Pat Barker
- Peace can not be kept by force; it can only be achieved through understanding. - Albert Einstein
- Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to change a life. - Leo Buscaglia
- Empathy means understanding others on your own terms and bringing them into the orbit of your own experience. - Jacob A. Belzen
- I call him religious the one who understands the suffering of others. - Mahatma Gandhi
- Until you have learned to be tolerant of people who do not always agree with you, until you have cultivated the habit of saying a kind word to those you do not admire, until you have formed the habit of looking for the good in others. others instead of the bad, you will not be able to be successful, nor be happy. - Napoleon Hill
- Empathy is the complete presence of what is alive in another person in the present moment.-John Cunningham
- If speaking is silver, listening is gold.-Turkish proverb
- Learning to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to see through their eyes, this is how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world. - Barack Obama
- Empathy is seeing with another's eyes, listening with another's ears, and feeling with another's heart. - Alfred Adler
- We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity. - Goldie Hawn
- When a good man suffers, everyone who considers himself good must suffer with him. - Euripides
- Love is an enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a desire to be greater than oneself. - Thomas More
- Empathy takes time; Efficiency is for things, not for people.-Stephen Covey
- You cannot understand another person well and do something else at the same time.-M. Scott peck
- We all have empathy and perhaps not everyone has the courage to show it.-Maya Angelou
- Empathy is putting yourself in the shoes of another to find out what exactly that person is feeling or what is happening at a given moment.-Deepa Kodikal
- Nobody cares about how much you know, until they know how much you care.-Theodore Roosevelt
- Reducing an economic gap is impossible without also reducing the gap in empathy.-Daniel Goleman
- I do not ask the injured person how they feel. I myself become the hurt person.-Walt Whitman
- We are born with the capacity for empathy. An ability to recognize emotions and that transcends races, cultures, nationalities, classes, genders and ages.-Mary Gordon
- Empathy is the opposite of spiritual meanness. It is the ability to understand that every war is lost and won. And that someone else's pain is as significant as yours.-Barbara Kingsolver
- I don't like that man. I need to know him better.-Abraham Lincoln
- Empathy allows us to perceive our world in a new way and move forward.-Marshall Rosenberg
- We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.-Goldie Hawn
- Inattention kills empathy. The first step to compassion is realizing the need for another person. It all starts with the simple act of attention.-Daniel Goleman
- If you judge people, you don't have time to love them.-Mother Teresa of Calcutta
- Empathy resides in the ability to be present without opinion.-Marshall Rosenberg
- Empathy represents the foundation for all important social competencies at work.-Daniel Goleman
- There is something about people that only they know.-Ben Harper
- The closer one person feels emotionally to another, the closer they will become.- Allan Pease
- You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view, until you step into their shoes and walk with them. - Harper Lee
- Empathy is the full presence of what is alive in another person in the present moment. - John Cunningham
- The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel the pain of others as your own and act to eliminate that pain. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness. - John Connolly
- The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most revealing signs of a culture on the verge of barbarism. - Hannah Arendt
- We believe that we listen but very rarely do we listen with true understanding, with true empathy. However, listening is something very special, it is one of the most powerful forces for change that I know. - Carl Rogers
