Empathy Exercises Quotes

The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.

As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

We think empathy is innate, but it's not. It's a muscle you're working.

I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.

For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.

It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

As an actor the best thing you have is your imagination. You're not going to have all the experiences, but you draw on the things that you know. So I think you definitely use the things that you're familiar with to your advantage.