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I'm an emotional person. By J.k. Rowling Person Emotional

Even though I didn't think I'd like empathy it kind of creeps up on you and makes you feel all warm and glowy inside. I don't think I want to go back to life without empathy. By Kathryn Erskine Inside Empathy Kind Creeps Makes

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions. By Elbert Hubbard Reason Emotions Arithmetic

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness. By Sharon Salzberg Happiness Joy Practice Sympathetic Realize

It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given. By Jo Coudert Oil Characteristic Squeaky Hinge Realm

Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen enemy, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength. Stealing our will, for what are we without empathy? What manner of joy might we find in our live if we cannot understand the joys and pains of those around us, if we cannot share in a greater community. By R.a. Salvatore Loss Enemy Tearing Strength Empathy

Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes. By William Arthur Ward Empathy Thoughts Heart Prayers Soul

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area. By Jason Segel Creepy Area Find Line Sympathetic

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart. By Sue Monk Kidd Empathy Identify Heart Mysterious Transaction

I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy. By Jeff Lindsay Sympathy Nodded Genuine Synthetic

Empathy is the most powerful weapon [ ... ] By Augusto Boal Empathy Weapon Powerful

Empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011). By Mikkel Wallentin Keen Oatley Mar Empathy Narratives

Like any value, empathy must be acted upon. By Barack Obama Empathy Acted

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection By Charles Darwin Sympathy Selection Increased Natural

At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards. By E. M. Forster Times Sympathetic Gesture Great Care

I'm a pretty emotional person. By Katey Sagal Person Pretty Emotional

I must confess, I honestly & intensely dislike emotion. Its a messy human default. By Daleen Van Tonder Confess Honestly Intensely Emotion Dislike

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears. By Leigh Hunt Sympathizing Alike Tears Selfish People

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree. By Dolly Parton Person Degree Tenderhearted Feel Ninth

Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage. By Richelle E. Goodrich Empathy Bandage Hand Thick Scars

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. By Mark Twain Sobs Sigh Handkerchief Blood Relation

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. By Samuel Johnson Pity Uneasy Feelings Creature Distress

Her empathy was like a double-edged razor that allowed her to experience the nethermost of human joys and sorrows. The best and worst of emotions cut her to the bone. The pain of her heart was like a tortuous phantom that lived outside her body. She could feel its presence. It clung to her breasts like a nursing infant. Pressure on her chest. Stealing her breath. I don't want to hurt like this, she thought. Then she remembered the alternative. She pictured life without feeling and imagined the sociopath existence. It is better to feel, she said. By C.j. Anderson Sorrows Empathy Doubleedged Razor Allowed

The answer was simple. It was the difference between sympathy and empathy. Carl By Ted Chiang Simple Answer Carl Empathy Difference

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. By Louise J. Kaplan Children Infants Sympathy Capable Compassion

We need empathy to give empathy. By Marshall B. Rosenberg Empathy Give

Emotions are captive to reality By Kao Kalia Yang Emotions Reality Captive

For the first time I began to perceive that true sympathy cannot be switched on and off like an electric current, that anyone that identifies himself with the fate of another is robbed to some extent of his own freedom. By Stefan Zweig Current Freedom Time Began Perceive

Grief is a peculiar emotion. By Sebastian Faulks Grief Emotion Peculiar

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society. By Kafu Nagai Empathy Creation Basic Principle Artistic

Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction. By Lew Wallace Sympathy Moment Anger Emotion Great

Mr. Complete Lack of Sympathy By Karen Chance Sympathy Complete Lack

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard. By Steve Earle Sympathetic Voice Characters Heard Trouble

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations. By Friedrich Nietzsche Hostility Vain Feign Pity Demonstrate

Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion! By Mehmet Murat Ildan Compassion Existence Emotion Nobler

Choose empathy over apathy. By Mango Wodzak Choose Apathy Empathy

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. By Thomas Noon Talfourd Sympathy Great Lesson Man Farther

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility By William Hazlitt Sensibility Sympathy Governed Extent Determined

Ooh-kaay. Moving on from odd reaction to completely innocent question.Zart, Lindy (2014-09-04). Ordinary (Anything But Series Book 1) (p. 14). Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly Publishing. Kindle Edition. By Lindy Zart Oohkaay Lindy Ordinary Book Publishing

Empathy was a sword with two edges. I was blessed with the ability to care deeply for people, and cursed with the knowledge that they would nearly always choose the worst for themselves. By Seth King Empathy Edges Sword People Blessed

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer. By Patricia Cornwell Suffer Sensitive Pain People

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery. By Marion Marechal-Le Pen Empathy Humane Misery Understand Human

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.' By George Mcgovern Love Empathy Injunction Thyself Born

Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic. By Caroline B. Cooney Guys Sympathetic Nice Person

Empathy is the key to great stories. By Ami Vitale Empathy Stories Key Great

When empathy makes us feel pain, the reaction is often a desire to escape. Jonathan Glover tells of a woman who lived near the death camps in Nazi Germany and who could easily see atrocities from her house, such as prisoners being shot and left to die. She wrote an angry letter: "One is often an unwilling witness to such outrages. I am anyway sickly and such a sight makes such a demand on my nerves that in the long run I cannot bear this. I request that it be arranged that such inhuman deeds be discontinued, or else be done where one does not see it." She was definitely suffering from seeing the treatment of the prisoners, but it didn't motivate her to want to save them: She would be satisfied if she could have this suffering continue out of her sight. By Paul Bloom Pain Escape Empathy Feel Reaction

Perhaps it is not love that motivates effective altruists but empathy, the ability to put oneself in the position of others and identify with their feelings or emotions. Writers like de Waal and Jeremy Rifkin have seized on the idea of empathy as, to use de Waal's words, "the grand theme of our time."4 Rifkin believes that civilization has spread the reach of empathy beyond the family and the community so that it covers all of humankind. By Peter Singer Empathy Waal Rifkin Emotions Love

I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips: it is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me.) By Martin Amis Racked Perfunctory Meretricious Poignancy Face

My heart, far too sensitivefor this human world.My heart, so easily wounded, sheds rose tears of compassion. By Mary Summer Rain Heart Wounded Sheds Compassion Sensitivefor

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating. By Ronald Firbank Debilitating Sympathetic Discrimination

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture. By Stefan Molyneux Empathy Culture Sunlight Vampire

Empathy is an essential part of living a life of meaning. By Daniel H. Pink Empathy Meaning Essential Part Living

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? By Pablo Picasso Understanding Dangerous Sympathetic

Incredibly fond. By Sophie Kinsella Incredibly Fond

I can sympathise with everything, except suffering", cried Lord Harry, Shrugging his shoulders. "I cannot sympathise with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. By Oscar Wilde Harry Shrugging Lord Suffering Cried

Sympathy can turn so quickly. Just add fear. Stir. By Jack Ketchum Sympathy Quickly Stir Turn Fear

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy By Giovanni Boccaccio Human Unhappy Compassion

Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself. By John W. Roper Sympathy Waisted Give

I am an emotional I am an emotional, devotional, incandotional creature. By Eve Ensler Devotional Emotional Incandotional Creature

Mankind needs more empathy. By Philip K. Dick Mankind Empathy

Emotions get our attention. By John Medina Emotions Attention

Sympathy for the enemy a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence. By Frank Herbert Enemy Sympathy Alike Weakness Police

I react emotionally to everything! By Jennie Garth React Emotionally

We give empathy to others for our own benefit. By Marshall B. Rosenberg Benefit Give Empathy

The soul of conversation is sympathy. By William Hazlitt Sympathy Soul Conversation

Empathy is, first of all, an act of imagination, a storyteller's art By Solnit, Rebecca Empathy Imagination Art Act Storyteller

I bask in that sympathy because it's nice to have somebody who cares, even if it's the wrong person for the wrong reasons. By Nenia Campbell Wrong Cares Reasons Bask Sympathy

I'm emotionless right now. It's hard to describe how I'm feeling. By Wes Short Jr. Emotionless Feeling Hard Describe

Compassion nourishes the wilted heart. By Jana Fayne Kolpen Compassion Heart Nourishes Wilted

Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential. By Jane Goodall Empathy Important Potential Clever Brain

Aron and a team of scientists have also found that when sensitive people see faces of people experiencing strong feelings, they have more activation than others do in areas of the brain associated with empathy and with trying to control strong emotions. It's as if, like Eleanor Roosevelt, they can't help but feel what others feel. By Susan Cain People Strong Aron Feelings Emotions

Human feeling. That's beyond my range. I'm rotten to the core. By Jean-Paul Sartre Human Feeling Range Core Rotten

Pity is always twinged with disgust. By Daniel Quinn Pity Disgust Twinged

Without exception, empathy is always appropriate. By Stephen Covey Exception Empathy

I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don't break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive. By Nimrat Kaur Person Pretty Emotional Moves Act

That's me, I'm emotional. By David Wells Emotional

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy. By Paul Bloom Wrong Spark Empathy People Flatout

When we give and receive empathy, transformation occurs. By Arthur P. Ciaramicoli Empathy Transformation Occurs Give Receive

To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others' achievements and good fortune. This attitude is a powerful antidote against envy, which is not only a source of unnecessary suffering on the individual level but also an obstacle to our ability to reach out and engage with others. By Dalai Lama Actions Fortune Attitude Bring Benefit

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Harmony Aim Conclusion Life Identity

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination. By Hosea Ballou True Place Imagination Sympathy Putting

We all know the kinds of short-term states we can enter that can compromise our empathy. These include being drunk, tired, impatient, or stressed, during which we might say or do the wrong thing to someone else and later regret it. The feeling of regret is a sign of our empathy circuit coming back on, but the fact that we say or do the wrong thing is nevertheless - at that moment - a fluctuation in our empathy circuit. By Simon Baron-Cohen Empathy Wrong Kinds Shortterm States

Sympathy, recall, tends to be expressed in communal relationships, the kind that are also accompanied by guilt and forgiveness. Anything that creates a communal relationship, then, should also create sympathy. By Steven Pinker Recall Sympathy Forgiveness Relationships Communal

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. By Randy Pausch Emotion Understood Pity Selfpity

A sensitive heart is a rich source of ideas. By Nikolay Karamzin Ideas Sensitive Heart Rich Source

The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we're unable to share in someone else's pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person's happiness truly jeopardizes our own, the more we pave the way for experiencing sympathetic joy By Sharon Salzberg Joy Identify Acknowledge Moments Unable

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy ... By Soren Kierkegaard Dread Sympathy Sympathetic Antipathy Antipathetic

With empathy, I'm fully with them, and not full of them - that's sympathy. By Marshall B. Rosenberg Empathy Sympathy Fully Full

I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility of kind treatment, can bring such an immediate rush of emotion. I think this is because we are almost never really listened to. In my work as a psychologist, I am reminded every day of how infrequently we are heard, any of us, or our actions even marginally understood. And one of the ironies of my "listening profession" is its lesson that, in many ways, each of us ultimately remains a mystery to everyone else. By Martha Stout Listened Treatment Emotion Impressed Fact

Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and resolving interpersonal problems, whether this is a marital conflict, an international conflict, a problem at work, difficulties in a friendship, political deadlocks, a family dispute, or a problem with a neighbor. By Simon Baron-Cohen Problem Empathy Solvent Universal Conflict

My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day. By George Saunders Heart Sort Day Empathy Depends

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. By Martin Luther King Jr. Concern Pity Check Soul Represent

Empathy gives you the ability to enjoy another person's pain. By Marshall B. Rosenberg Empathy Pain Ability Enjoy Person

[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty. By Immanuel Kant Distress Inclination Uppose Friend Grief

Every empathic human heart seeks meaning. By Jeffrey A. White Meaning Empathic Human Heart Seeks

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts. By Alanis Morissette Despair Hurts Pain Grief Throat

Empathy: Looking Out the Patient's Window By Irvin D. Yalom Empathy Window Patient

To understand sympathetically, with one's whole beings, the state of mind of some one radically unlike oneself is very difficult - is, so far as I am concerned, impossible. By Aldous Huxley Impossible Sympathetically Difficult Concerned Understand

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing. By Eugene H. Peterson Pity Condescending Shared Lifechanging Nearsighted

I'm an emotional person, a very emotional person. By Michael Clarke Duncan Person Emotional