Quotes About Empathy

If you wanna get a report card on your faith, see how you are dealing with people who are really difficult to deal with.

I wanna make music that helps people.

I could help a lot of people's kids that are going through racism or getting bullied. That's what I wanna do.

I'm not big on rookie hazing. I didn't wanna be hazed as a rookie, so I definitely didn't want to do it to others.

I feel like if you wanna be sober and you can't handle being around someone who drinks, then don't do it.

If I'm being honest that's something that I think to myself every time I go on Instagram - 'Look how skinny she is, I wanna be that skinny', and it's horrible.

Once you're there, you'll love playing for the Raptors and love playing for the country, but by the fourth or fifth month into the season, you're just like damn man, I wanna go home.

Sometimes as friends, you grow apart and you have different visions for what you wanna do and that's OK, there's no love lost.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

I always believe that if you have a good heart, you just want to do what's right. You don't want to step on anyone.

I just want people to know me and to love me, because I have no love.

I can't think of the last Asian that I ran into that talked about internment camps. But black people always want to talk to me about slavery.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

When you love someone and care about them, you want what's best for them, and it's always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren't what's best for them, how hard you try.

It's okay for me to make jokes about disabled people and people with horrible diseases because they make me uncomfortable, and I don't want to be like them.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

There's so much negativity on social media, I don't want to add to that.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

My adoptive mother always wanted to meet my biological mother.