Quotes About Empathy

I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.

Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue.

If you've raged, if you've mistreated somebody, if you've ever thought only about yourself - these are things that all human beings struggle with and judge themselves for.

Animals have a very clear spirit, and they are so open to the world around them that they can easily be mistreated.

Animals shouldn't be mistreated.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we do, or who share our faith, then we misunderstand what empathy is.

People misunderstand me.

My biggest concern is people misunderstanding me.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

It does grieve me to think there are people misunderstanding my heart on an issue.

I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.

Not listening is the reason for so many misunderstandings and conflicts.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

Of course there are moments for everyone, and certainly for me, where you do feel misunderstood. You feel like you can't really connect. You do feel like you're alone in something.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.

I think I have a deep-seated fear of being misunderstood. Or being misjudged.

If you are misunderstood, I want you to know that I feel the same way.

Sometimes I feel like I represent for the misunderstood.

I have always been misunderstood.

I know what it is to be misunderstood.

Just feeling misunderstood sometimes, I guess, has been my biggest downfall.

As parents, you want to try to mitigate your children's pain.