Quotes About Empathy

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life.

I can't imagine anybody in my life I've been more vulnerable with than my wife.

...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.

Anytime I can add a smile to somebody's life that's all well and good, but I play the game to play the game.

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

I definitely can relate to being down and closed-off at certain times in my life.

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.

When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.

I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.

Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.

Life is all about choices. Today, show compassion for others, think powerful thoughts, and exercise self control.