50 phrases about empathy to exercise this quality

Before saying anything, put yourself in the shoes of the person who is going to listen.

When people speak, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway.

Empathy is when you respect and welcome the pain of the other. It’s when you’re just there for the person, when you embrace suffering or achievement as your own.

Empathy is sprouting in a chest that is not yours.

Whenever you want to criticize someone, remember that all the people in this world have not had the advantages that you have.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Not even the pain itself weighs as much as the pain we feel with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Milan Kundera

Each being is unique and has its reasons for being as it is. That’s why empathy is so important.

Mayara Benatti

Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear, all they need is conversation. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart to your suffering can be a great comfort.

Empathy is the ability to look at the situation through someone else’s eyes.

Mayara Benatti

Empathy is about not judging the pain of others.

Empathy is being flexible. It is knowing how to listen and, sometimes, listening a lot before speaking.

Each person is a complete universe of pains, joys and complex feelings. Choose to empathize with each process.

Mayara Benatti

Always be kind. We don’t know what the other is going through.

Sincerity without empathy is just cruelty.

Instead of scolding, how about trying to understand?

Mayara Benatti

Empathy is the ability to think and feel the lives of others as if they were our own.

Touching another’s sacred ground requires responsibility. Think carefully before you speak.

Mayara Benatti

We must learn to consider people less in the light of what they do or fail to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If the pain is not yours, don’t call it drama.

Learn to be a bandage for a wounded heart.

Mayara Benatti

Empathy is a beautiful word. It means feeling the happiness and pain of the other, feeling it in your own flesh, in your own being.

Empathy: the art of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes.

Every person is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind.

Empathy is the meeting of emotions forming a bond of understanding.

Empathy is yet to change the world.

Love can even be seen with the heart. But sorry Shakespeare, I think he can be seen with the eyes too. Not when we only look with our own. When we can look with each other.

Empathy is when you put selfishness aside, unfocus from your belly button and feel what your neighbor is feeling.

Empathy is feeling with the heart of the other.

As much as it is impossible to feel exactly what the other feels, it is possible to try to understand.

Mayara Benatti

May we be different and know how to live with differences, but may we have empathy as a common point.

Mayara Benatti

Empathy is understanding feelings and perspectives and using that understanding to create actions.

Empathy is understanding that everyone sees life and reacts differently. And that you can’t judge anyone for that.

In a dark and individualistic world, empathy becomes the enlightenment of the souls, hearts and minds of the survivors of this regime of pain and bitterness.

It doesn’t hurt to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

Don’t be indifferent to people’s suffering. Recognize the importance of each being in your life.

Mayara Benatti

An empathetic heart is the best thing anyone can have.

Mayara Benatti

The greatest expression of empathy is being understanding with someone we don’t like.

Empathy is seeing with the other’s eyes, hearing with the other’s ears and feeling with the other’s heart.

Alfred Adler

The opposite of anger is not calm. It’s empathy.

Those who judge people don’t have time to love them.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Empathy grows as we learn.

Alice Miller

We have two ears and one mouth so we can hear twice as much as we speak.

You overflow light when you decide to light paths.

Mayara Benatti

The greatest gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all feel a mysterious connection with each other.

Meryl Streep

The most difficult address in the world: the place of the other.

A kind word can change someone’s entire day.

I wish you a huge pot of empathy, for you to use whenever you need it.

Mayara Benatti

Empathy is breaking down the wall between you and other people. It is to open horizons so that they can walk together.

Mayara Benatti

Empathy is the invisible bond that unites us.

When we practice empathy, we understand and accept that each flower has its time to bloom.