Quotes About Empathy

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

it's all one single grief.

I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

If a man is forever concerned first and foremost with his own interests then he is bound to collide with others. If for any man life is a competition . . . then he will always think of other human beings as enemies, or at least as opponents who must be pushed out of the way . . . and the object of life becomes not to help others up but to push them down.[7]

Servanthood is revealed in simple, everyday events.

I think if God came down and gave us all His version of Empathy then all the world's problems would surely become a thing of the past.

I think if God came down and gave us His version of Empathy then all the world's problems would surely become a thing of the past.

Dans cette grande salle sans glaces, chacun d'entre nous devient le miroir des autres.

If once you enter the arena of intimacy with someone, you owe them honest explanations to the best of your ability. You must never blank people when intimate relations have arisen; you must never slam the door in their face.

I still feel that poetry is not medicine — it's an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breastfeed.

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

Where a man feels pain he lays his hand.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership.

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

it is a terrible fact, but it is a fact, that few people have the imagination or the moral sensitivity to get very excited about actions which they don't participate in themselves.... and hence about which they feel no personal responsibility

Things don't have feelings. Events don't. Places don't. But people do. And things and events and places can create feelings in people . . . trigger an amazing range of individual reactions.

Part of my life is saving life.