Quotes About Empathy

Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement.

The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.

Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division.

It's a difficult time for a lot of people right now.

Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.

Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it.

If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe, give ourselves empathy, (b) scream nonviolently, or (c) take time out.

Give no time to finding fault of criticism.