Quotes About Empathy

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.

Governments are different, and philosophies are different, but when it comes down to it, a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher. A butcher is a butcher is a butcher. We are people. And we are far more common than we ever imagine.

Grab onto things that resonate with you, that you relate to, or that you empathize with.

There's something so grabbing about people who will do anything for one another.

Make sure you are safe, and never ever put yourself in a compromising situation, but once that is checked off the list, I think it's really important for us to remember that someone needs us, and that your act of giving/helping/doing can truly become an act of grace once you get out of your head.

I give as much detail as I do about the bad times because people out there don't know that others have been through hell but then through the process of amazing grace. You hope that someone out there will hear what you have to say, and that it may matter.

What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace.

Grace is a quality in people that I just enjoy. It's a very human quality.

We have to stop thinking of criminals as 'them' and admit to ourselves, 'There but for the grace of God go I.'

To teach their children how to show themselves grace in the face of a challenge, I coach parents to model self-compassion in the face of everyday setbacks.

By God's grace, I'm well off and I feel the need to give to those who aren't.

Every day, I think, by the grace of God, I'm here, blessed to be a U.S. citizen, but I could have just as easily been a Dreamer too.

Barbara Broccoli was a great friend of my late wife's and continues to be someone who is very gracious with me, my family, and our life.

I haven't always been as gracious a loser as I could have been.

I actually remember being in 3rd grade and piecing together in my head that one of my guy friends was homosexual.

When I was in fifth grade, I got bullied really nastily about my appearance.

I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.

In seventh grade, I met my best friend Wendi, who is a trans woman.

I've been inside the Anne Frank house. You've only read about Anne Frank in grade school. I've been in it. I've seen the diary. Things that teachers couldn't teach you.

The coolest people reveal themselves gradually, and flirting isn't just about making yourself look great, it's about making him feel great too.

I think that anybody gradually learns the things that go deeper than his own heart.

At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.

I said yes too much. I said yes to certain projects that weren't for me. It was somebody else's vision and somebody else's dream and somebody else's artistic endeavor, but it didn't necessarily fit in my grand scheme.