Quotes About Empathy

I think a lot of people want to blame their fathers for not being good enough when they were growing up. I think it can be an excuse for not coming to terms with your own problems.

I couldn't even fathom the idea of having my own children out in the world and not know them.

Before you have kids you can't even fathom what it really is.

I can't stand people who say they've got 'Africa fatigue.'

Once upon a time, there was a boy who didn't like himself very much. It was not his fault. He was born with cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is something that happens to the brain. It means that you can think but sometimes can't walk, or even talk.

Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you're given lectures about how it's really all your fault and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind.

I think that's one of the reasons women don't tell people when they've had a miscarriage - they think it's their fault.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

I'm just me and if me being honest about who I am and putting myself out there in that way makes connections with people and helps people out, that's just repaying the favor of music because that's what music does for me.

My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that there's a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with.

One of my favorite things about Telluride is because it's so small, the directors are really there for each other. You look at another director, and they feel the same thing you feel.

It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

I would love to be in quarantine with someone like Quinny de Kock. He is one of my favourite people in the world.

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

We don't discount that people's fears are their fears.

We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.

I think, for all trans people, it's not our only defining feature, but it is a defining feature.

Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.