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Empathy Quotes

Empathy Quotes

Empathy is the ability to feel what someone else is feeling, and these quotes explore why that matters and why it can be so difficult. The collection draws on actors, poets, and activists who see understanding others as the starting point for real connection and change.

Use them in counselling resources, team-building workshops, social media posts, or personal essays about relationships. Browse through and find the ones that resonate.

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“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.”

Sterling K. Brown

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

Maya Angelou

“Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.”

Max Carver

“Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.”

Daniel H. Pink

“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.”

Stephen Covey

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