All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
True contentment comes with empathy.
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.
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.
I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.
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