Quotes About Empathy

The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways.

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike.

If you yourself are not a victim, you cannot claim to see the world as the victim does.

It is very difficult to stop feeling.

Goddamn these sentiences, roared the tree with birds shrieking in its branches.

I'm genuinely and actually a bit like Jesus.

So by being offended you've sorta acknowledged that you are thick, and none of us are, so we're all back on speaking terms!

I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits amongst them, they wld not inrtoduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up... I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. (p52)

If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.

In the hands of a Magnum photographer, the camera is not just an objective eye, but an instrument to enlighten and inform, a stimulating force to influence opinion and sometimes to speak for those with no voice.

That's because the truth is, the only things that are going to bring lasting happiness to your life are good health and knowledge of self, which lead to a compassionate relationship with the world.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." —GANDHI It's

Steven wrote to me today, saying, 'Don't you feel like sticking your head out of the window and yelling, "I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!!!"' Yes, absolutely. Solidarity. Fear is always the same. Different worries with different scripts, but the same baseline fear.

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.

He judged people by himself - and they weren't that way. That was his one mistake. Hilter judges people by himself, too. He succeeds because they are that way.

If someone can handle you at your worst, they'll stick around for your best.

The best friends are those you can argue with but love anyway.

They see you at your worst and don't run away. If someone can handle you at your worst, they'll stick around for your best.

I don't want you to be like other men. I want you to be who you are. And when I look at you, I see a caring and tender man who only wants the best for others. When we make love, that's the person I'm going to be with." Then

Who wanted to pass someone on the street and greet them only to be rewarded with a miserable sigh?

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

But wherever I go, I know I will feel most at home with the wounded of the world, who hold their heads up high no matter how broken they may seem.