Empathy
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
empathy
(n): identification with
and understanding of
another's situation,
feelings and motives
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sympathy
(n): act or capacity of sharing or understanding the feelings of another
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Could a greater miracle
take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude,
two for friendship,
three for society.
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We can all sense
a mysterious connection
to each other.
Meryl Streep, American actress, three-time Academy Award winner.
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No man is an island, entire of itself;
any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind,
therefore never send to know for
whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne, 16th-century English poet and cleric.
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Cain offered, of the fruits of the earth, gifts to the Lord. Abel also offered of the firstlings of his flock.
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The Lord had respect to Abel, and to his offerings.
But to Cain and his offerings He had no respect.
When they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and slew him.
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The Lord said to Cain:
Where is thy brother Abel? And he answered, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?
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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
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I swear, by my life and my love
of it, I´ll never live for the sake
of another man, nor ask
another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand, 20th-century, American philosopher, author, playright, founder of Objectivism.
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Loneliness and the feeling
of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
St. Teresa of Calcutta, religious sister and missionary, founder, Missionaries of Charity.
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You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented, but then you read. It was books that taught me 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.
James Baldwin, 20th-century American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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When people talk,
listen completely.
Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway, 20th-century American author, and journalist.
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Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.
Lloyd Shearer, 20th-century American gossip columnist. Misattributed to Buddah
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Human beings aren´t as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with the feelings and thoughts of others.
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So maybe our formal education should be training in empathy.
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Imagine how different the world would be if there were reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator.
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