I Am Sam - Quotes

 Rita:
Now, Ms. Cossell, in all the time that you've known them, have you ever questioned Sam's ability as a father?
Annie:
Never.
Rita:
Never?
Annie:
Never. Look at Lucy. She's strong. She displays true empathy for people, all kinds of people. I know that you all think she's as smart as she is despite him, but it's because of him.
Rita:
So what you're saying is you don't worry about Lucy's future?
Annie:
No, I do.
Rita:
Ah...
Annie:
I worry all the time. I worry if they take Lucy away from her father they will take away an enormous piece of her, and I worry that she will spend the rest of her life trying to fill that hole.
 

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Martha C. Nussbaum - Quotes

 As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves. 

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Roger Ebert - Quotes

 I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. 

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Ursula K. Le Guin - Quotes

 The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny. 

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Milan Kundera - Quotes

 All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped? 

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Rosa Luxemburg - Quotes

 What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball 

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Meryl Streep - Quotes

 The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. 

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Susan Sarandon - Quotes

 I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.  

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 As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

h/t wordsmith.org 

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Susan Kay - Quotes

 None of us can choose where we shall love... 

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James Baldwin - Quotes

 You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. 

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Sue Miller - Quotes

 I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind. 

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Erol Ozan - Quotes

 Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy. 

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Frederick Buechner - Quotes

 If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in. 

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Daniel Goleman - Quotes

 Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action. 

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John Connolly - Quotes

 I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being. 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima' 

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Loren Eiseley - Quotes

 This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out. 

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 As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitutde, but compassion holding its breath. 

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Pat Barker - Quotes

 It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain. 

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Salvador de Madariaga - Quotes

 My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust. 

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