Quotes About Empathy

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

I want to do good, and I want people to be happy, and sometimes when you're a people pleaser, you spread yourself too thin.

I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.

I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.

There was a time when I only wanted to show off, but as I've grown older, I've realised that acting isn't an end in itself. You act to communicate something, and if you have to use an accent or become thin or fat, that's part of your job.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

When you start to think of revenge, you start to think of hate. I don't believe in hating people. It's a retrogressive thing.

The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.

Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

Relationships are everything. If you build great relationships you can make a lot of great things happen.

I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.

I like to make good things happen for other people. It makes me happy, and I believe it's good for my business as well.

Things happen in 'If This is a Man' that are beyond ordinary daily experience, but it is still us to whom they are happening, and the understanding Levi seeks is no different in kind from that sought by Shakespeare in 'King Lear', or Conrad in 'The Heart of Darkness'.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

Sometimes things happen in life, and you kind of need a friend.