Quotes About Empathy

I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.

And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.

When someone is on the phone telling me a story, I'm hearing the soundtrack that goes with it.

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.

I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu.

It's interesting when you talk to someone who has really been through something very, very terrible. They are less likely to talk about it. People who have had a bad day because their soup was cold can talk about their 'suffering' all day long.

The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical, and as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

The solution to putting an end to bullying is to stop it at the source but also to find out what is causing the person to behave the way that they do.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don't want to bully people, and I don't want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I'm actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn't say.

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey.

In general, what fans talk about and think about become a very important source of inspiration to us, because we want to write something that's real to people, especially those who listen to BTS music.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

There's no greater source of happiness than giving yourself to other people.

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

Perhaps one could say I've worked in South Africa too long, but I believe in forgiveness, especially when a person admits a mistake, asks for forgiveness, and works to right a wrong.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.

If you go to Paris, try to speak French. If you go to the South, try to speak Southern. Southern isn't stupid. Southern is narrative; Southern is family.

I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.