Quotes About Empathy

I met a girl when I was in third grade. Kids were beating her up - she was deaf - so I walked her home. Her parents were deaf and they gave me the alphabet on a card. I learned it and taught my friends how to do the alphabet - which was outlawed in our school because we used to talk to each other in class.

I fell down in Hyde Park with a friend who'd had a hip operation, and neither of us could get up again. People must have thought we were a couple of drunks rolling around and walked on by.

I remember going with my grandmother to the houses she cleaned when I was little, and I would have to stay down in the basement while she cleaned, and then we walked back home together.

The idea of Ryley Walker not ever listening to Leonard Cohen is like me going out to dinner and them telling me that they've never had spaghetti or whatever.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything.

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

Walking around sometimes, I would love to just be able to watch people, see how they act. Sometimes I would love to be invisible.

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

If I see a baby, I don't feel anything. It's like Theresa May walking past a homeless person.

When my son was 3 years old - I'll never forget this - there was this homeless guy walking toward us, and my son looked at me, and he said, 'Who's your buddy?'

If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Being multiracial has allowed me to feel comfortable walking in all different circles.

I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.

When you see a Sudanese walking on the street, there is a story.

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.

When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.