Brene Brown Quotes

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

Love is to understand, at last, the suffering of another.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

Sympathy is a sweet thing.

Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

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.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

On 'Awkward,' we really like to send the message out that we're relatable, and that we get what people are going through.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us

People aren't very good at other people's pain.