Quotes About Empathy

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.

When you're on the inside, there's no other perspective but what you see on the inside. When you're on the outside, you get to look at things a little differently: how you can help, how you can fit in, how you can do certain things differently.

Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing as they can... just differently.

Everybody handles things differently.

I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.

I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn't mean that it's not thinking.

I just want to tell stories that are meaningful and have inspiration to them; people can watch it and take away something, or maybe they'll just think about themselves differently or think about the world differently. I just want to create characters that live on.

Mama showed me that I didn't have to change just because someone else saw things differently. She showed me that having differences is normal and that I didn't have to be afraid of the differences in all of us.

Everyone connects differently with different things.

Would Jesus be bashing people for thinking differently than you even if you think it's wrong? Nope. He would be loving on everyone.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

Acting is the most difficult job in the world.

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.

I came out when I was 17 - coming out in middle or high school is one of the most difficult things that anyone could experience. I wouldn't wish it on my enemies.

The most difficult things in the world is to touch anybody's heart.

I think one of the difficult things for me was that I was putting on a brave face for my loved ones; they were putting on a brave face for me. But what got lost in that was the ability to talk about our fear.

In difficult times, most of us need friends.

Whenever I see people in difficulty, I just try to help them. In fact, I believe I have helped over 700,000 people in my life.

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.