Jillian Michaels Quotes

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

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.

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

Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.

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.

The idea that people feel that they have to be sympathetic to me? It's a funny concept.

I feel like there is a real lack of empathy - not just in American society, it's definitely happening in Britain as well - and it's heartbreaking that people can see something and not feel it.

I am the type of person that likes to put myself in someone's shoes to 'get' it.

When I see people sad, I'm sad.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

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 tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

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

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

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

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, 'Poor thing.' I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth.