#empathy

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#being #between #camels #care #creatures

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.' ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#dead #empathy #famous #god #i

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. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#friends #friendship #inspirational #friendship

True contentment comes with empathy. ↗

— Tim Finn

#contentment #empathy #true

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#america #appropriate #bring #empathy #example

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#believe #careful #clinton #companion #connection

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#calmness #empathy #opposite

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#anyone #certain #empathy #experienced #life

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#empathy #get #great #great relationship #i

Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#humanity #love #funny