Feeling Others Quotes

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

Empathy is about two people - two people meeting, getting to know each other and tuning in to what the other person is thinking and feeling.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

I think that's almost what it is sometimes if you sum up what acting is. It's just the ultimate expression of empathy.

I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

What I mean by "empathy" is putting yourself in other people's shoes, feeling what they feel.