Clare-Hope Ashitey Quotes

Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.

Most people have the ability to turn their empathy engine back on, but there's such a seductive burn to not being empathetic.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

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.

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

It's not a very nice thing to not have empathy. I would like to have empathy. In the past I haven't been very empathetic with other people.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.