Empathic Person Quotes

“I think that many people do not know what empathy is. They think empathy is understanding their own selves and then connecting with like-minded individuals, who of course will understand them since they all share the same ideas. Empathy has nothing to do with likemindedness; it has to do with being able to feel the things that others feel, even when you do not share the same ideas, life story, or absolutely nothing at all! When I hear someone say, “I don’t understand you”, that makes me feel sorry for them. I can even understand a rock, and they can’t understand me? My pet rocks have more empathy than they do.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Are you an empathy person or are you a happiness person? I'm an empathy person. It is far more important to me that I empathise with another person, than to show that I'm happy. I believe a lot of people are 'happiness conscious': there's a self-consciousness surrounding happiness that always haunts them. They need people to see them as happy, they need to be perceived as happy people. I just don't have that self consciousness. I want to connect with you, I want us to feel each other, I want to understand you. These are the things I need. I don't need to win, I just want to live.”
― C. JoyBell C.