Quotes About Empathy

I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.

If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

Kindness is the key to peace and harmony in family life.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.

I feel that I have worked my whole life to get to the point where I should have a good understanding of women.

You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho

In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others?

I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.

Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.

I don't think my life is more interesting than anybody else's.

I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives.

The best way to persuade is with your ears.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

I cherish my every connection. I see the other in myself and myself in others.

I don't have many deal breakers. I've done so much in my life, it doesn't feel right to judge other people.

Life is too short to waste time harboring bad feelings about anyone. Forgive, forget, then move on!

If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.