Quotes About Empathy

I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.

If there's a negative interaction between my child and another child, what I want to know is, how was it handled, what lessons came out of it and of course, is my child okay?

I've recently learned not to take things personally. We can get offended by anything if we want to.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

I can still discern people's weaknesses, but it doesn't make me want to exploit them; it makes me want to hug them.

I'm always writing to a younger version of myself, or a young woman who is like I was. I want that girl to know that I really existed and that it all went down that way.

No one really wants to be laughed at.

I will put my heart and soul into making sure that the care your son or daughter or mum or dad receives is the same I would want for my own family.

I do like to play people I wouldnt want to spend five minutes in a room with.

I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to do it.' Because it's in the 'yes...and' spirit [rule of improvisation].

I've learned over the years, when someone is complaining or wants to vent and has something they want to tell you, they don't necessarily want you to fix it.

When it's a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it's all the same. You want to be honest with the character. You want to play truthfully and you want to be genuine with your character.

I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about.

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

I'm going to tell my contestants: Be Bernie Sanders. Be the person people want and love.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

People don't want to hang around someone that you don't know how they're going to react to anything you do or say.

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.

When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for them

Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who you are.

She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.