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understanding and entering into another's feelings

empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings

I didn't need an empathy link with the plants to know how they felt about it.
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters

empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings

We had to have a commander with so much empathy that he would think like the buggers, understand them and anticipate them.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

empathy = understanding of another's feelings

...the empathy they feel for the Living, so powerful it sometimes makes them weep.
Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love

empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings

...try your best to be authentic, faithful, wise, empathetic, and sincere—
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed

empathetic = understanding and entering into another's feelings

Whenever I think of the word "empathy," I think of a small boy named Huckleberry Finn contemplating his friend and runaway slave, Jim.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe

empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings

In fact, I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty.
R.J. Palacio -- Wonder

empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings

Anyone who could move from anger to empathy as effortlessly as she had was a treasure, and he was lucky to have found her.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian

empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings

In my more rational moments, I tried to feel empathy for Gervais.
Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key

empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings

I had an empathy link with Grover, so I hoped I would know if anything bad happened to him.
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian

empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings

Grover and I could sort of read each other's emotions because of this empathy link Grover had made between us.
Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth

empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings

Last summer, Grover had created an empathy link between us.
Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse

empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings

Empathetic people know exactly what another person is going through.
The purpose of this group is to build empathy, positive leadership, and connection among the students and within the community at large.
Jaycee Lee Dugard -- A Stolen Life
"He was a good man," she said, dullness with an obligatory injection of empathy.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
I see a cynic who hasn't been able to completely stamp out his own sensitivity, his own empathy.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
The Aluit were empathic and it was our fear and greed which killed them-that and our unbreachable alienness.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
Travis saw empathy and concern etched on their faces.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
If by force you make a creature live and work like a beast, you must think of him as a beast, else empathy would drive you mad.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
Remote sympathy is fine, but intimate empathy directly conflicts with the Sheridans' manner of living.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor

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