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Listen to your Mother - LA by Lisa Sjolund
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  • Post category:Feelings and Emotions / Relationships
  • Post published:May 7, 2016

“Empathy” is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another, experiencing how they are feeling from their perspective.

Source: What is empathy? @ Google

image: Listen to your Mother - LA by Lisa Sjolund under Creative Commons license

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