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A human can anytime acquire Empathy but a lot hinges on the willingness to expand upon empathy that too with a conscious mindset. Empathy is competent in reducing anxiety and depression leveraging the power of human connections aiming to create a loving and helping community. Empathy is beyond religion. Empathy is indeed competent in addressing a few most prevalent human problems causing mental illness, inequalities and beyond. Here take your empathy to a next level with the help of few remarkable Empathy Quotes.
“BEE QUEEN
Be not scared oh beetles of the earth
Be at peace for the Queen Bee flaps for the preys. Your safety abide oh Queen of the Bee for your grace is only for the bees.
The earth cry for empathy and your smiles brightened her fate
When darkness whispers, your glow splashes
Your beauty is like a thorn, it penetrates even the hardest feelings
Your nest awaits your grace oh Queen mother
#Poem by Victor Vote for Yetunde Kayode
©️2021 by VVF”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
#HenriNouwen
“Are you an empathy person or are you a happiness person? I’m an empathy person. It is far more important to me that I empathise with another person, than to show that I’m happy. I believe a lot of people are ‘happiness conscious’: there’s a self-consciousness surrounding happiness that always haunts them. They need people to see them as happy, they need to be perceived as happy people. I just don’t have that self-consciousness. I want to connect with you, I want us to feel each other, I want to understand you. These are the things I need. I don’t need to win, I just want to live.”
#C.JoyBellC.
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
#J.K.Rowling
“Each person you meet
is an aspect of yourself,
clamoring for love.”
#EricMicha’elLeventhal
“There is no small act of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.”
#MaryAnneRadmacher
“Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.”
#LeslieJamison
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.”
#MerylStreep
“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”
#EdithWharton
“As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.”
#MarthaC.Nussbaum
“I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy…that makes you unkind.”
#SueMiller
“Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.”
#ShannonL.Alder
“LOVE of others is the appreciation of one’s self.
MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.”
#MinaLoy
“Understanding people’s difficulties and—just as crucial—helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.”
#KathrynErskine
“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.”
#BarbaraKingsolver
“Empathy depends not only on one’s ability to identify someone else’s emotions but also on one’s capacity to put oneself in the other person’s place and to experience an appropriate emotional response.”
#CharlesG.Morris
“Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.”
#OprahWinfrey
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”
#BrenéBrown
“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.”
#WilliamArthurWard
“When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.”
#StephenCovey
“We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.”
#CarlRogers
“All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.”
#MaryaMannes
“Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.”
#AnnieLennox
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
#F.ScottFitzgerald
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
#HarperLee
“Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia – em (into) and pathos (feeling) – a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person’s pain as you’d enter another country, through immigration and customs, border crossing by way of query: What grows where you are? What are the laws? What animals graze there?”
#LeslieJamison
“The seeds of care and empathy are built into every human being and a variety of soils and fertilizers will allow those same seeds to grow and flourish.”
#GudjonBergmann
“But then I look at others who carry greater pain, who suffer a disease that has no cure. I realize my blessings, I’m grateful to be me, I empathize with what they must endure.”
#GretaZwaan
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