Quotes About Empathy

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.

Shame doesn't exist as an emotion without the projected or perceived sense of judgment coming from somewhere else.

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.

My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

Every father and son have conflicts.

I know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.

My son, Sam, is 15 years old, and he's been a diabetic since he was 2. When you're a parent of a child with any kind of chronic illness, these things don't go away. You have a lot of good days, but some days you feel like you're losing bad.

I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.

Being a mom has affected me in the greatest way possible - and in a necessary way. Having my son has helped me to be grounded, and I feel like with a child you have to really think about things all the way through.

I love my son, but I was never there for him, so I understand why he hates me.

I don't want him to hurt himself. I don't want him to choke on something. You're just so concerned for them, and it hurts you. It's so alarming, man. I feel it for the people around me, but it's deeper for my son. Only a parent would understand.

Sometimes there's a very special relationship between a mother and her son.

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

I wouldn't believe there was something 'wrong' with my son.

As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.

I don't think anyone can listen to a Smiths song and not scream your lungs out in recognition of what it's like to feel odd.

Any song I do, I put my heart and soul into and, as an artist, you can only hope it makes other people feel the way you feel when making it.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

The people in my songs are all me.