Quotes About Empathy

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

Walk with the rich Walk with the poor Learn from everybody That's what life is for.

I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

The main thing is to be philanthropic in your everyday life. You don't have to have money to do that. You can do it with your time and your energy.

I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.

If your're not having a very good time with your life, its because you haven't done much for others. You may have done many things but you havent done much for those around you.

One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give.

As you pass through this life, have you done all that you really wish to for others?

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

Not everyone is your friend. When you are psychic you tend to forget that others don't view life the way you do.

Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling.

I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

I want to look at my audience and see all walks of life. I want to do something for everybody.

If life becomes hard, soften it with random acts of kindness.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.