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Empathy is understanding each other with love, patience, tolerance, and care

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Empathy is when you understand what others are feeling.

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Empathy is when you share the feelings that others are expressing or feeling. It is important because it shows that you care about them

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Empathy is understanding how someone feels, and understanding how it may affect that person. Compassion is acting on that, trying to amplify certain positive emotions and attempting to downplay negative emotions in others.

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Empathy is important because it helps us understand other people and feel certain emotions for them and whatever they're going through.

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"The great gift of a human beings is that we have the power of empathy."-Meryl Streep

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Empathy is important because you can understand how someone feels in a certain situation, it also shows how you are as a person.

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Compassion and pity towards someone else.
It is important because we can help other people that are in need.
We develop empathy by feeling compassion towards someone that is down.

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It is important because it helps express you as a person.

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we can develop empathy by asking others how things felt for them and trying to feel that yourself

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Empathy is important because we are able to understand what people feel

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"All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart." -Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me.

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Compassion is sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.

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it is important to have empathy because it shows you are a caring person and you care for others feelings.

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Empathy is important because it shows how you can get along and how people can build bonds with each other

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We show compassion by feeling sad or pity for others

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“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.”— Roger Ebert

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Empathy is important because  if there was no empathy you wouldn't feel the need to help someone else out.

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- Its important because it can show who you are as a person and to show your care for someone to make them feel good.

- We can develop empathy by putting yourself in other peoples thoughts and as you go through stuff you want other peoples support so maybe it would show you what its like and make you feel emphatic. As you grow into relationships with people and strong friendships empathy can really be a huge part to bring you closer.

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Compassion is to feel pity or concern for the suffrage of others. We show compassion when we feel for someone. We can also so compassion when we relate to someone or were in that persons position before. When you show compassion towards others it can build trust and a stronger relationship.

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-It's important to be empathetic because then you get a sense of what someone elses life is like, even if you haven't lived through it. It can help you for later in life when you need to connect with people.
-A lot of people show compassion to another person when they are sad or something bad has happened in their life.
-Compassion is a really important thing to have because you can just be there for someone and help them if they need it. When you are compassionate and empathetic, you can develop better relationships with people, and you will build a lot of trust.
-My mom is really empathetic and compassionate and sometimes it is kind of annoying because she tries to be really positive and help me with things even when I don't want help. I appreciate it though and she's really good at showing how much she cares about other people.

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Empathy is important because it helps give us an understanding of other people's situations and stories. Being empathetic lets people put their trust in you, they think they can rely on you when they need to. It can also strengthen bonds between people, if you are empathetic towards someone they are more likely to like you or confide in you.

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-We can develop empathy by walking in other peoples shoes, or asking questions.
-We can show compassion by showing kindness.

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I say when we show compassion, we show it when others are in pain or feeling strong emotions. Like something so little as in a friend who feels sad because they failed a test that they really worked hard on completing it. Or it can go something big as in someone you looked up to was really big inspiration but they ended up being a really bad person and you feel sad since you thought their were your person to follow.

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