What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

Both empathy and sympathy are feelings concerning other people. Sympathy is
literally 'feeling with' - compassion for or commiseration with another person.
Empathy, by contrast, is literally 'feeling into' - the ability to project one's
personality into another person and more fully understand that person. Sympathy
derives from Latin and Greek words meaning 'having a fellow feeling'. The term
empathy originated in psychology (translation of a German term, c. 1903) and has
now come to mean the ability to imagine or project oneself into another person's
position and experience all the sensations involved in that position. You feel
empathy when you've "been there", and sympathy when you haven't. Examples:
We felt sympathy for the team members who tried hard but were not appreciated.
/ We felt empathy for children with asthma because their parents won't remove
pets from the household.