Radical Empathy Quotes & Sayings

If you really want to feel the life, use not your umbrella! Touch the truth directly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions. — Gloria Steinem

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed. — Sylvia Plath

It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things. — David Hume

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. — Samuel Johnson

You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important. — Neil Patrick Harris

And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood. — Christopher Hitchens

The gospel of the Savior is not simply about avoiding bad in our lives; it also is essentially about doing and becoming good. And the Atonement provides help for us to overcome and avoid bad and to do and become good. Help from the Savior is available for the entire journey of mortality - from bad to good to better and to change our very nature. — David A. Bednar

Whoever said "Success is 80% Joy and 20% Hardwork" must have chased the latter 20% not ignoring the first 80%. Follow the Joy route and the power is already lost. — Priyavrat Thareja

A writer is like a tuning fork: We respond when we're struck by something. The thing is to pay attention, to be ready for radical empathy. If we empty ourselves of ourselves we'll be able to vibrate in synchrony with something deep and powerful. If we're lucky we'll transmit a strong pure note, one that isn't ours, but which passes through us. If we're lucky, it will be a note that reverberates and expands, one that other people will hear and understand. — Roxana Robinson

To hate others is ugly.
To hate yourself is uglier. — Hlovate

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I'd way rather defend myself against a man with a stick than a social worker with good intentions. — Wendelin Van Draanen

When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do. — Billy Childish