Quotes About Empathy

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

We've always had each other's backs in and out of competition. We support each other the most because we're the only ones that know what it's like to go through what we do, and so we can't be more thankful for each other. We're like sisters.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

I'm fascinated by the idea that a human connection can be triggered through inanimate devices.

Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

Throughout my high school years, I was very quiet, I didn't have many friends. I distanced myself from a lot of people.

I'm just hoping throughout my career I can help eliminate what people can and can't be because of where they're from or what they look like or their religion or ethnicity.

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, there has been suffering and hardship on both sides of the generational divide.

It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to.

I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.

I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would - they may not agree with me politically on all the things I'm saying. But they will know at the end of the film that I love this country and that I have a heart. And they'll have a good laugh throughout the film.

Spidey was the one comic I read consistently throughout my childhood. As someone who grew up a nerd, scrawny, and picked on in high school, I related very strongly to Peter Parker.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

I don't love horror movies with something surreal happening. That doesn't work for me. What's terrifying is something that could actually happen to me and what I would do. I don't know how to throw a punch, and I've never had to do it.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

It's not like I am a junkie that wants to throw himself from very tall buildings, but some people are, and I love them kind of people.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

I don't have any reasons to be disrespectful or throw anybody under the bus.