Quotes About Empathy

Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.

I drove through the stockyards of Texas on a motorcycle. It doesn't let you escape what surrounds you and what it smells like and feels like - and what hit me was the realization that something that was alive and had feelings will suffer before a piece of it is placed on our plates.

'Paris, Texas' gave me a chance to play compassion, and I'm spelling that with a capital C.

There is no price tag on an American life - whether it's in Florida, Texas, or Puerto Rico.

Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a world that I would never be a part of.

I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once I'd read it, that it wasn't a seminal text. I think it deserves to be.

I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

If you don't text your relationship partner - even if you just saw them in person - it's like you're doing something wrong.

If we talk about 'Groundhog Day' as a humanistic text - we only have one life, and there's no punishment or reward afterwards - then the wisdom is, just be kind because that will make you happy and the people around you happy.

My friends are my everything. When I feel that anxiety, I always call them or text them and they talk me through it.

I don't think I am that person who can just text people for the heck of work. I should be invested in that person otherwise I won't.

I find texting to be kind of a safe space.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.

I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my 'friends.'

The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I try to convey a little bit of that to the reader.

Thailand was built on compassion.

I watched 'Drag Race Thailand' without any subtitles or voiceovers or anything; I don't speak Thai but I do speak drag, so I felt like I understood exactly what was going on, even though I couldn't speak Thai. I didn't understand anything they were saying but I knew exactly what was happening.

No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.

If I am more fortunate than others I need to build a longer table not a taller fence.

Empathy, humanity and support for each other is more important than revenue, than growth.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.