Quotes About Empathy

I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.

Beauty lives with kindness.

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

I learn life from the poets.

You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry

His saying was: live and let live.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.

I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.

Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.

I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.

Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.

Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?

It's good for me to see so many other people who are not me. That there are so many others. I feel affection for them. Most of them are doing the best they can. I am also doing the best I can.

[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

When you're pro-life, you need to be pro-life for the whole life.

Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?

As actors, we have to be able to keep ourselves open to feel, and that's a life lesson I think many people don't get a chance to learn. In my personal life, I've learned to carry this lesson with me.

You can't divorce yourself from your own life experiences.

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.