Quotes About Empathy

You have to try to imagine an ideal reader, who's neither stupid nor able to know what your thoughts are.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

When it comes to dealing with change and crisis, grace becomes evident in how we treat one another.

A vulnerable leader facilitates the bonds of trust by making herself approachable, likeable, and respectable.

When a leader demonstrates vulnerability, she enables three things to occur: approachability, likeability, and respectability.

We did our best, Anna and I. We forgave each other for all we were not.

It wasn't that funny, but I laughed. There wouldn't be much laughter in the world if people didn't like each other, because there sure as shit aren't that many good jokes.

People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don't much care about how well it works, just about how right it is … they may even like it better if it inflicts enough pain.

Don't underrate ordinary human decency," Josh said quietly. "There's more of heaven in a guy who hands a cold soda to a hot, tired panhandler than there is in fifty moral philosophers.

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

That's what comes across in this account of Jesus' baptism: it's all about Jesus taking my part, coming down to my level in order to lift me up to his level. What more could he have done to prove himself our friend?

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

At some point when tending someone you love who is in pain, you reach the edge of a lake, and you look at each other with such joy at the stillness. [Letter unsent]

You were like no man I had ever heard of. You could have made whatever you liked of me. But you did nothing. A woman isn't like money that put in a bank and it will bring you interest without you doing anything about it. A woman is a person.

insan?n bir ?eye dokunmas? demek, kendisini o ?eyle ili?kili bir duruma sokmas? demektir.

To try to understand the experience of another it is necessary to dismantle the world as seen from one's own place within it, and to reassemble it as seen from his.

The truth is that most photographs taken of people are about suffering, and most of that suffering is man-made.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

The worse anyone feels, the worse treated he is. Fools elect fools.

This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them—after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

Apart from Scientologists and born-again Christians, junkies are probably the worst people in the world to live with. Even other junkies will tell you that.

But later, standing in triage, surrounded by a pile of bloody rags that had been cut from the body of an eight-year-old boy who was now in surgery, having a gangrenous leg amputated, she felt the black heat rising inside her head again. It made her wish she'd gone with Cooper. What the hell is wrong with people that they'd do these things—to little kids? It

What cannot be communicated to the [m]other cannot be communicated to the self.