Linda Thompson Quotes

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

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

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

I consider all drama to be the opportunity to see the world from another person's point of view. That seems to be the point of drama, really. And thereby to encourage understanding and even love.

I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.

If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.

You can't have empathy for somebody that's gone through something you haven't - because, definitionally, you can't. But you can feel for them and have sympathy for them. And that's what this country needs to practice more. It's about realizing that you do come from a different place.

To be empathetic to everyone around you, I think, is such a powerful thing to hold.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.