Bob Casey Jr. Quotes

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

I'm very empathetic - that might be one of my superpowers.

If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.

I will try and become a very empathetic person because I do think that's a nice trait.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.