Quotes About Empathy

What fixes your spirit when Ferguson happens? When Trayvon Martin and those kind of things happen, they hurt your spirit; it hurts your heart and your soul. You need something to fix it.

Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot, in all conscience, accept any form of prejudice.

When you're single, you're not beholden to anyone, and you can shut down more easily. In the past, I had the idea that I'd live in a caravan with a dog near a pub with no responsibilities. But now, when bad things happen in the world, I feel responsible for them because they're going to impact on my daughter.

I'm from L.A. I've seen a lot worse things happen than a guy taking some glasses.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

I think we all need to be able to dream in all colors.

I think I'm a humanist. I believe all humans should have equal rights to live, express, flourish, love and dissent, irrespective of their gender, caste, class, socio-economic strata, disabilities, political stance, religion or faith.

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

I think I will always feel like an outsider.

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

History is not merely a procession of people in fancy dress fighting wars. It is crucially the story of man's evolution from grunting cave dweller to serious thinker, from cruelly retributive law to merciful law, from casual barbarism to care and compassion.

Honestly, without art and dance, I think I would be a very safe, black-and-white thinker. I wouldn't dare to take any risks or see so much of the world in myself and other people!

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

I am a student of good and bad, and I've always been inquisitive. I never want to be the know-it-all in a room. I want to be in the room of those that are thinkers and people that are compassionate, people that have drive and ambition. I'm always driven by it.

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.