Quotes About Empathy

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

I don't go through life verbalizing what I feel.

I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.

I know that in my life my girlfriends are one of the most important relationships I have going through the good times and the bad times.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore.

I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice.

It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.

I've really become super active in rescuing animals, and it has made my life feel so much better. I can't even express to you how happy it has made me.

What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.

Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.

The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

I think it's important to be involved with charities that don't necessarily reflect what you're dealing with in your life.

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.