Quotes About Empathy

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.

I just strive to do better. Every time I meet somebody, I ask myself, "How can I help this person?"

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.

I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.

With the horse I always consider that if I do too much in too little time and I'm not patient, he's gonna shut down and I won't get anything done.

Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you all the time.

Nobody is solid and perfect all of the time.

Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time — of all time.

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

The world is healed one loving thought at a time.

To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.

I like to do my research, get in the right mental state for the person I'll be portraying. A lot of time, it's just incorporating a lot of what that person would be into, into my daily routine.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.