Quotes About Empathy

If you're nice, if you like yourself, if you treat other people well, you're going to be successful. I guarantee it.

If you and I believe two different things, I can attack you verbally all day, but if I can make you laugh and show you the absurdity of your argument, it will lower you guard. People let you in then.

I think we should let our guards down a little bit more.

Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.

I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.

I get a guest on the air, and they're weird or strange, and I help them tell their story. I don't laugh at them. I listen.

You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to.

You've got to listen to your guests.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.

Beyonce is my role model. You know how people say, 'What would Jesus do?' I always say, 'What would Beyonce do? In her career, what decisions would she make?' And I really think it helps me guide my career and be really nice to every fan and every person that I work with.

Athletes are people too, we go through a lot of things, but it all became easier when there was someone who could guide and counsel.

I can't let darkness be what guides my decisions. I can't let that be what guides how I treat people. I can't let that be what drives my art, either.

Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do.

I can relate to ranchers and roughnecks and professional game guides and farmers and homemakers.

When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they're guiding you rather than you guiding them.

When both my parents were unwell I was in that situation that will be very familiar to many women. I had young children in one part of the country, and elderly unwell parents in another. I was in a constant state of guilt. Was I there enough for my mother? Was I there enough for my children?

I think the saddest thing is how people take on guilt and blame that isn't theirs or doesn't belong to them, and how hard it is to forgive yourself.

There is so much shame and guilt in our society, and I think it has deprived a lot of people from living fully. We are all facing battles... We've all had someone who has hurt us. So let's talk about it.

Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

We're all guilty of slacktivism, or of feeling like a savior for taking two seconds of your day to think about someone else.

If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make.