Quotes About Empathy

I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I'm bullet-proof, but I'm not You took a swing, I took it hard And down here from the ground I see who you are.

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

In a relationship each person should support the other they should lift each other up.

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them, you will not know them, And what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys. — Chief Dan George

Every animal is a gateway to the phenomenal world of the human spirit. What most fail to realize is that what they think of animals reflects the way they think of themselves.

None of us are saints, but we can all try to be better. Each time you do something generous, you're shaping yourself into someone who's more likely to be generous next time, and that matters.

through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

Some lovers break up with each other the first time they have a big argument; some parents do as little for their children as they can get away with; some pet owners ignore their pets whenever they become inconvenient. In all of those cases, the people are unwilling to make an effort. Having a real relationship, whether with a lover or a child or a pet, requires that you be willing to balance the other party's wants and needs with your own.

Loving someone means making sacrifices for them.

The answer was simple. It was the difference between sympathy and empathy. Carl

S]kill at debate isn't the same as maturity.

The pleasure you give is returned in the pleasure you receive.

Forgive me, Lord, for being sharp to a man who sought only to assist me. I ask for your help in being patient with those who believe women helpless.

Science fiction is about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition.

If those scientists could come up with some way to turn off the jerk circuit in guys' brains, I'd be all in favor of that.

People are nice to me because of how I like, and part of me likes that, but part of me feels guilty because I haven't done anything to deserve it.

It'll be when you first learn to walk that I get daily demonstrations of the asymmetry in our relationship. You'll be incessantly running off somewhere, and each time you walk into a door frame or scrape your knee, the pain feels like it's my own. It'll be like growing an errant limb, an extension of myself whose sensory nerves report pain just fine, but whose motor nerves don't convey my commands at all. It's so unfair: I'm going to give birth to an animated voodoo doll of myself.

When Kokwa told the story, he didn't merely use words; he used the sound of his voice, the movement of his hands, the light in his eyes. He told you the story with his whole body, and you understood it the same way. None of that was captured on paper; only the bare words could be written down. And reading just the words gave you only a hint of the experience of listening to Kokwa himself, as if one were licking the pot in which okra had been cooked instead of eating the okra itself.

I am a lover of beauty, he of humanity.

Ana wonders if Jax's asexuality means he's missing out on things that would be beneficial for him to experience.