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People complain not because something sucks. People complain because they're looking for empathy and to feel connected with those around them. Unfortunately, complaining is maybe the least useful way to connect with other human beings.
Mark Manson
People
Complaining
Looking
Other
Complain
Way
Those
Something
Empathy
Feel
Because
Around
Least
Human
Maybe
Human Beings
Unfortunately
Them
Useful
Connect
Connected
Beings
Sucks
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Change
Community
Action
Point
Impetus
Empathy
Taking
Creating
Starting
Starting Point
We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Love
Communication
Care
Responsibility
Preparation
Our
Adulthood
Empathy
Children
Social
Teach
Social Responsibility
Need
I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.
Neil Gaiman
World
Giving
Important
Sense
Live
Believe
Incredibly
Our
Our Lives
Ways
Possibly
Allowing
Empathy
Make
Understand
Escape
Stories
Us
Creating
Lives
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon
You
World
Power
Imagination
Develop
Empathy
Opens
Powers
Up
Your
Whole
Start
Our message, without preaching, is how to treat wildlife and to have empathy for all animals.
Terri Irwin
Treat
Animals
Preaching
Our
Wildlife
Empathy
Message
Without
How
Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.
Bruce Rauner
Great
Strong
Discipline
Dedication
Incredible
Ability
Empathy
Talent
Real
Intellectual
Skill
Requires
Teaching
Interpersonal
Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.
John Hickenlooper
Democracy
Own
Community
Benefit
Solely
Recognition
Some
Empathy
Without
Self-Interest
Narrow
Regard
Decisions
Based
Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't.
Phil Klay
Warrior
Empathy
Course
Lack
Necessary
Resilience
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
Barbara Kingsolver
Life
Good
You
Eyes
Somewhere
Live
Through
Takes
Empathy
Look
Another
Person
Fiction
Ask
Creates
Novel
What I am unable to understand with the people who associate themselves with Trump is their willingness to overlook the dishonesty, the indecency, the lack of empathy, to be asked to go out every single day and why.
Daniel Pfeiffer
Day
People
Single
Every
Unable
Out
Willingness
Empathy
Single Day
Understand
Am
Overlook
Go
Trump
Lack
Dishonesty
Themselves
Asked
Who
Why
Associate
Every Single Day
If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
Gayle Forman
Depression
Sometimes
Sadness
Opportunity
Feelings
Understanding
Everyday
Everyone
Hopelessness
Some
Mention
Point
Empathy
Almost
Almost Everyone
Major
Also
Hinders
Emptiness
Because
Linking
Offers
Experiences
Lethargy
Spectrum
The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.
Ira Glass
You
Yourself
People
Too Much
Thinking
Too
Other
Tool
Dramatic
Machine
Characters
Logic
About
Emotion
Empathize
Empathy
Powerful
Over
Powerful Tool
Without
Contrast
Gets
Situations
Staged
Story
Much
Really
Reason
Sequence
Moments
Imagining
Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as a strength again if there is to be any kind of hope in the world.
Matt Bellamy
Hope
Strength
Needs
People
World
Seen
Kind
Weakness
Seems
Empathy
Withdraw
Condition
Any
Again
Succeed
Really
Universal basic income is not a solution in search of a problem - it is the obvious solution that has been in front of us for years. It only requires us to have the vision, empathy and courage to adopt it for the American people before it is too late.
Andrew Yang
Courage
Too Late
People
Problem
Vision
Before
Too
Late
Has-Been
Solution
Adopt
Only
Empathy
Obvious
Been
Years
American
Front
American People
Us
Requires
Search
Income
Basic
Universal
I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.
Cara Delevingne
Life
You
Learning
Eyes
People
Feeling
Looking
Other
Constantly
Through
Empathy
Feel
Always
How
Am
Act
Teach
Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.
Clint Smith
Suffering
Our
Rather
Stem
Empathy
Likelihood
Contingent
Proximity
Disdain
Happening
Us
Should
Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.
Dan Chaon
Life
Great
Perspective
Picture
Live
Gifts
Would
Would-Be
More
Empathy
Like
Another
Than
Means
Humans
Imaginative
Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
David Miliband
Politics
Good
Vision
Values
Before
Sets
Starts
Analysis
Out
Solutions
Empathy
Policy
Getting
Proceeds
Then
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.
Dayananda Saraswati
Religion
Heart
Culture
Nation
Nationalism
Nothing
Human Heart
Touch
Empathy
Indoctrination
Because
Demolish
Denied
Human
Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.
Dayananda Saraswati
Natural
Human Being
Care
Otherwise
Harmony
Those
Responding
Out
He
Empathy
Reach
Because
Does
Human
Endowed
Being
Order
Natural Order
Who
Things
Violates
Need
I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.
Edward Norton
Motivational
You
Reality
Confused
Try
Thought
Sympathy
Out
Inside
About
More
Emotional
Empathy
Exercise
Always
Get
Trying
Represent
Which
Certain
Acting
Figure
Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
Frans de Waal
Morality
Empathy
Unthinkable
Without
Human
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.
Geraldine Brooks
Love
Religion
You
Hatred
Past
About
Write
Driving
Driving Force
Empathy
Force
Does
Very
Interested
Capacity
Us
Create
Ignore
Fundamental
Societies
Violence
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.
Graydon Carter
Intelligence
Treat
Behavior
Consider
Way
Worst
Admire
Finest
Part
Self-Awareness
Puts
Empathy
Because
Demonstrate
Very
Traits
Human
Human Behavior
Social
Them
Display
Elephants
Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There's no empathy - none.
Guillermo del Toro
Me
Alien
Insects
Drop
Young
Living
Hat
Eat
Perfect
Empathy
Instincts
Remote
House
Also
None
Metaphors
Any
Human
Your
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