Quotes About Empathy

I'm sorry for what happened to your family and your people, but why must we be punished?

My hand is cramping up as I go into a whirl writing out rebuttal points. I glance at the audience again and my eyes connect with Tia and for one second, one minuscule nanosecond, I detect we're on the same wavelength: she's also worried we'll lose. It's the only time we're connected together against another object - not each other.

I can imagine that there's a lot of hate right now. If it ends up turning people against each other then I'm petrified; I'm sickened to think that we will allow those murderers to end up winning.

empathy does more to your conscience than a news report

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket on his boat. The fish were not yet dead, so the man decided to ease their suffering by killing them swiftly. While he worked, the cold air made his eyes water. One of the wounded fish saw this and said to the other: "What a kind heart this fisherman has- see how he cries for us." The other fish replied: "Ignore his tears and watch what he is doing with his hands.

I'm starting to realize that being born into this social world is a little like being born into clean air. You take it in as soon as you breathe, and pretty soon you don't even realize that while you can walk around with clear lungs, other people are wearing oxygen masks just to survive.

I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.

But I identify myself, as always,With something that there's something wrong with,With something human.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

A slur against any group by a member of another can never go unremarked if our society is to have any long-term future.

For the rest of us, the price of our inability to place ourselves in the fullness of world history has been crippling.

Reading...can make you fell like not one lone cell stranded in the desolation of the world, but one of eight billion cells conjoined by the world, all hearts echoing the others in the song of one enormous heart.

Everything a person does is manipulative, isn't it? Every kiss, every handshake, every kind or harsh word. It's what we do, who we are. Some of us are better at it or more obvious or more deceitful than others. But we all do it.

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Reprove not in their wrath incens?d men, Good counsel comes clean out of season then; But when his fury is appeased and past, He will conceive his fault and mend at last: When he is cool and calm, then utter it; No man gives physic in the midst o? th? fit.

Please say that my line is to make to smile the lunatic who has shown no sign of mirth for many months.

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

You could tell a lot about someone by listening to him talk about his enemies.

Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.