Quotes About Empathy

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

This be OK?' I asked, innocently. 'You want me to have no skin left?' You rolled your eyes. Actually, don't answer that one.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

God does not want to make us comfortable as much as He wants to make us comfort-able - to take the comfort that we receive and share it with others.

Pity is something only weakness wants.

I wasn't sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want.

People want to bring kids to their level, and they want to make it seem like kids have this thing. It's seen as funny to them.

Humility is what we want other people to have.

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

I think it's important to share emotion, feelings. Everything the words can't explain. I just want to convey what I'm feeling, thinking.

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

What annoys us most in other people is oftentimes the same area God wants us to grow in ourselves.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request?

When you love someone, what they want is the best that you can give them.

Respect is important, if someone has a very clear vision of what they want, as long as they find a way to communicate it, a respectful way…

My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird: You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.

God wants you to know that he gets you.

Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow.

It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.