Quotes About Empathy

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

I think maybe the key to having a long relationship is really appreciating that person's life and not trying to own it. It's like just stop trying. We all do it.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

You don't get that many people in your life that you can just tell anything to.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.

I feel like my joy in life has intensified, (and) my compassion for people has just strengthened. I have compassion that I wouldn't have had before.

The hero, in living her own life, in being true to herself; radiates a light by which others may see their own way.

Don't confuse acceptance with being a naïve or weak person. Acceptance does not mean condoning negative behavior, staying in a bad situation, or not working to improve our life and the world.

I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

Only those live who do good.

A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.

Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.

I hope that people who don't live with animals will appreciate that each animal is a unique individual with a rich inner life.

I have never in all my life considered you other people.

No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.

Friends are the support bras of life.

Justine reached for a fresh tissue and clamped it to Lucy's nose as if she was a child. "Friends are the support bras of life. We don't let each other down. Right?

My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.