Do you ever feel you’re carrying the entire world on your shoulders? Do you ever have the feeling that you’re too sensitive for this world? That you are more sensitive to things than everyone else?
So, if this is the case, you may be an empath.
To clarify, empaths are people who are sensitive to and feel the emotions of others. They are often referred to as “emotional sponges” because they absorb the emotions of others around them.
This has the potential to be both a benefit and a curse.
On the one hand, empaths are better than most people at sensing and understanding the emotions of others. On the other hand, they may struggle to shield themselves from negativity.
So, it’s critical to learn to empower yourself and regulate your sensitive side if you’re a highly sensitive person. This essay will assist you in doing so. Today’s post contains 20+ empath quotes to encourage and empower you!
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Empath Quotes To Empower Your Sensitive Side
#1.
“There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
– Milan Kundera
#2.
“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness. It is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken. It’s the society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. So, there is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a ‘hot mess’ or having ‘too many issues are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Thus, never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.
– Anthon St. Maarten
#3.
“The world needs them. The ones who absorb the emotions of others, which diminishes their pain and anxiety, and the world also uses them as a repository for confessions, secrets, grudges, and indignation. They will leave these uncommon and intuitive individuals feeling unburdened themselves, while the unusual individual will be weighed down by having taken on those burdens in addition to their own. The world needs them, but what they need is something as aberrant as themselves, and that is silence, stillness, and rest.”
– Donna Lynn Hope
#4.
“Empaths did not come into this world to be victims. We came to be warriors. Be brave. Stay strong. We need all hands on deck.”
– Anthon St. Maarten
#5
“It’s this thing I have. I’m sorry if it scared you. I feel other people’s feelings. I imagine crumbling insides and splitting hearts, goodbyes that hang in the air before they break into tiny pieces. I hear words that aren’t said, the echoes of lonely hallways and hollow footsteps. I hear sobs that soak pillowcases when all the lights are out and the world is sleeping. I carry this inside of me, all of it.
I knew you paced the floor at night, trying to walk over all the things you didn’t want me to know. But I felt every wound you ever endured when I rested against you. I felt the ache that I have, deep inside of me, on your lips. So, every time we kissed, I tasted a lifetime of tangled paths and bumpy roads woven with joined hands. Love isn’t blind, you see. I felt everything you were and could be, if only you stopped hiding in the same darkness you sheltered me from. I knew who you could become if someone loved you just right. I’m sorry if that scared you.
Just in case you were wondering, I still love you and I’ll keep the lights dim. Come home.”
– Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#6
“Empaths did not come into this world to be victims, we came to be warriors. Be brave. Stay strong. We need all hands on deck.”
– Anthon St. Maarten
#7
“Heyoka empaths act as mirrors of our persona. They exploit light energies to open people’s minds and heal. They also rarely take things seriously. Heyokas are excellent at making jokes, to make light of a situation. However, when they take their mask off, it itches.”
– Katya Ki
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#8
“Love, to empaths, isn’t just a shallow experience based on looks, social status or great sex. Instead, love is something that comes from the very heart and soul of what an empath is. Love is intense passion, unconditional devotion, and absolute fierce vulnerability.”
– Aletheia Luna
#9
“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself”
– Mohsin Hamid
#10
“The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.”
– Oprah Winfrey
#11
“The sad thing that many of us empaths don’t realize is that often our desire to heal others is a disguised cry for help for our own healing. Because many of us weren’t taught how to value or nurture ourselves at a young age, we tend to unconsciously seek out our own healing in the healing of others.”
– Mateo Sol
#12
“As empaths, our high level of sensitivity means that we are prone to feeling like eternal outsiders who are in the world but not quite of the world.”
– Aletheia Luna
#13
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
– Barbara Kingsolver
#14
“Empaths feel more deeply, more intensely, and more persistently than those around us. We even feel what other people are afraid to feel within themselves.”
– Mateo Sol
#15
“As a heyoka empath, your mind and heart will function independently. It is possible to discern over difficult situations without your emotions coming to play. This does not necessarily imply that you are heartless or cold, but rather that you can make sound decisions without your emotions affecting you. It is quite elusive telling what a heyoka empath is feeling unless you are one yourself. Heyokas can detect flaws in people around them but they won’t openly disclose them.”
– Katya Ki
#16
“Why is sensitivity perceived as being dangerous? When we’re sensitive, we feel things we were taught not to feel. When we’re sensitive, we are completely open to attack. When we’re sensitive, we are awake and in touch with our hearts – and this can be very threatening to the status quo indeed.”
– Aletheia Luna
#17
“Everything in existence is energy and gives off waves. Empaths are merely magnets for those energy waves, some feeling small crests while others live bombarded with tidal waves.”
– Jennifer Soldner
#18
“Dear empath:
You are a being of immense depth, wisdom, and compassion. You are a pioneer and trailblazer of humanity, a model for others on how to be sensitive and powerful. All the strength and love you need is already within you, waiting to be discovered.”
– Mateo Sol
#19
“Empaths don’t see the world as other people do. They process things in a completely different pattern and think outside the box. Relating well with heyoka empaths requires that you stay open-minded. A heyoka will focus on the light side of a situation. And that’s how they come up with solutions. So, from the Native Americans’ perspective, heyokas would disrupt other people to startle them or shift their point of focus.”
– Katya Ki
#20
“Now, more than ever, our society is in need of sensitive and empathic people. Now, more than ever, the human race needs to go inwards and connect with the Soul again. As natural-born healers, intuitives, and mentors, it is not only our responsibility but also our destiny to help humanity heal.”
– Aletheia Luna
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#21
“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.”
– Roger Ebert
#22
“Intuition is a wonderful gift but it can be both a blessing and a curse. If you can easily tune in to the grief of another, it is very easy to lose your way if you have not yet resolved your own present or past trauma and grief. If you have not healed from your own grief and you turn around and give all you have to give, you will find yourself drowning. Soon there will be nothing left of you.”
– Kate McGahan
#23
“It is so important for us as empaths to maintain a sense of connectedness with life. When we put up walls to protect ourselves, we end up exhausting, victimizing, and alienating ourselves. It is far more satisfying, effective, and healthy to work with our gifts, rather than against them.”
– Aletheia Luna
#24
“The highly sensitive [introverted] tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They often describe themselves as creative or intuitive. They dream vividly, and can often recall their dreams the next day. They love music, nature, art, physical beauty. They feel exceptionally strong emotions–sometimes acute bouts of joy, but also sorrow, melancholy, and fear. Highly sensitive people also process information about their environments–both physical and emotional – unusually deeply. They tend to notice subtleties that others miss – another person’s shift in mood, say, or a lightbulb burning a touch too brightly.”
– Susan Cain
#25
“The very best thing we can do for others isn’t soaking up their pain, it is actually holding space for them. Holding space for a person means giving them the room to grieve or vent while still maintaining our own boundaries.”
– Mateo Sol
What Do Empaths Suffer From?
Empaths are primarily affected by energy overload.
Empaths can sympathize with others to the detriment of their own well-being. In addition, empaths are extremely sensitive to energy, which is why they experience ‘energy overwhelm.’
When empaths are drained or weighed down by the emotions and energy around them, they are said to be empathic. These energies are absorbed as if they were their own.
Empaths can empathize with others so deeply that empaths are frequently overwhelmed by other people’s emotions and experience them as if they were their own.
What Are The 6 Types Of Empaths?
Many empaths are unaware that they are empaths. So to clarify, here’s a chart to assist empaths in identifying their empath type:
- Emotional empaths experience other people’s and animals’ feelings as though they were their own.
- Physical empaths may detect physical pain, disease, or injury in others by sensing it in their own bodies.
- Intuitive empaths understand the inner states, moods, and ideas of others.
- Animal empaths sympathize with animals and pick up on their energy. So, they have a psychic connection to animal needs and like working with animals.
- Plant empaths detect plants’ vitality, moods, and ailments and empathize with their energy.
- Geomantic empaths connect with the Earth’s energies, landscapes, and weather patterns. In addition, they may also detect geopathic stress, a mild sort of radiation.
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What Is Special About Empaths?
Empaths are special in that they can feel the emotions of others as if they were their own.
A highly sensitive person can also detect others’ physical and mental anguish. So, this makes empaths extremely sensitive to energy and frequently causes empaths to experience ‘energy overwhelm.’
Final Thoughts
First of all, it is difficult to be empathic.
However, it doesn’t hurt to be more compassionate and caring toward our fellow humans.
We hope that these 20+ empath quotes inspire you to embrace your sensitive side.
