Quotes About Empathy

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

There are all kinds of friends you make in life... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.

Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the people you've been.

If you want to kill me, despise me, hate me, and live in an unsightly way... Run, and cling to life, and then some day, when you have the same eyes as I do, come before me

What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.

Trust life, trust that it will always guide you to the right thing, and be kind, be compassionate.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

The connecting principle, the force that expands our consciousness beyond ourselves, appears to be love.

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.

They had forgiven themselves for the harm they had done each other, and they were rapt in a regard of what their life together might have been.

She was worn and tense and there were dark shadows under her eyes; he wished that he could do something to ease her pain and knew that he could not.

And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don'treally understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.

Asperger's is not a disease. It's a way of being. There is no cure, nor is there a need for one. There is, however, a need for knowledge and adaptation on the part of Aspergian kids and their families and friends.

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

They enrolled me in a group for troubled kids. We would meet each week in an old farmhouse owned by the university and talk about our problems getting along. . . . . They didn't teach me to get along, but I did learn that there were plenty of other kids who couldn't get along any better than me. That in itself was encouraging. I realized that I was not the bottom of the barrel. Or if I was, the bottom was roomy because there were a lot of us down there.

As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dramatic reactions to bad news involving strangers are hypocrites. That troubles me. People like that hear bad news from across the world, and they burst into wails and tears as though their own children have just been run over by a bus. To me, they don't seem very different from actors and actresses—they are able to burst into tears on command, but does it really mean anything?

am always calmer and more relaxed in a pile, being petted. Nowadays, for the first time, I fall asleep quickly and I seldom have bad dreams. If I wake up, she puts a paw on me and I go back to sleep. I put a paw on her,

I can't look at a stranger's face and think, She's smiling just like Amy. When Amy smiles like that she's happy, so this person is probably happy, too. Instead, I watch and evaluate, with a slightly anxious feeling. It's as if I have to build a behavior database for every single person I meet in life. When I encounter someone for the first time, the slate is blank and I don't know what to expect.

Girls are the trickiest and most unpredictable creatures a fellow like me will ever talk to.

But were we so different, my pug and I?

can certainly see someone's actions over a period of time, and I will come to care for that person in response to how he or she acts toward me.

Individuals are labeled "different," "geeky," "abnormal," or even "Aspergian" or "autistic" at a young age. Among other things, these labels suggest that the people around them—their family, friends, teachers, and counselors—can't relate to their actions and expressions.