Feel These 24 Empath Quotes That Will Help You on Your Journey

Empathy is a powerful tool to understand and collaborate with the social world around you. It is a compassionate behavior learned by observing the interactions of those around you over the years. However, some people are born with an empathic head start. Research shows that genetics affects your natural ability to empathize. It seems that Empaths are born highly aware and sensitive to the emotions and feelings of others, actually feeling those feelings within themselves. Whether you are an Empath or looking to grow your empathetic self, here are some quotes about empathy to empower you.

Empath Quotes:

“Being an empath is like seeing with the soul.”
— Dean Koontz

“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”
— Alan Watts

“Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.”
— Alfred Adler

"To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate.”
— Anthon St. Maarten

“Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.” – Arundhati Ray
— Arundhati Roy

“Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and yourself.”
— Carl R. Rogers

“If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.”
— Daniel Goleman

“Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.”
— Daniel H. Pink

“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”
— John Steinbeck

“Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you’re not alone.”
— Brené Brown

“Empathetic presence involves listening to someone’s pain with - Attention, Acceptance, Appreciation, Affection, and Allowing.”
— David Richo

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
— Henry David Thoreau

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.”
— Henry Ford

“As empaths, we are not here to be sponges or enablers. We are here to be helpers, guides, and supporters.”
— Aletheia Luna

“The very best thing we can do for others isn’t soaking up their pain, it is actually holding space for them. - giving them the room to grieve or vent while still maintaining our own boundaries.”
— Mateo Sol

“Empathy means understanding others on their own terms and bringing them into the orbit of one’s own experience.”
— Jacob A. Belzen

“Learning to give empathy to myself and others as often as I can each day has rendered astounding benefits… Empathy leads to compassion and compassion to forgiveness and connection.”
— Judith Hanson Lasater

“Learning to give empathy to myself and others as often as I can each day has rendered astounding benefits… Empathy leads to compassion and compassion to forgiveness and connection.”
— Judith Orloff

“Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.”
— Homer

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
— Leo Buscaglia

“Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.”
— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.”
— Maya Angelou

“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself."
— Mohsin Hamid

“When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.”
— Stephen Covey