Quotes About Empathy

Now I understand how Noah must have felt. Can you believe this storm? I've got puddles all over my kitchen.

May be they want to talk about it but they know there's nothing you can do to help

In time of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed streets of life.

wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and in retrospect, I obviously lack many of those traits.

It's just that every now and then there's a student who comes from a challenging family background, and you know there's nothing you can do for them. It's enough to break your heart sometimes.

It wasn't until I had children that I really understood what love meant.

Another shuts down or holds grudges for weeks.

But as time passed, I came to realize that there was only so much I could do myself. That in the end, people who are grieving have to want to move on—that first step, that motivating spark, has to come from within them. And when it does, it opens the door to the unexpected.

But then again, he hadn't really been looking, had he? Both Valarie and Lori claimed that there was something inside of him they were unable to reach, something about the way he viewed himself that neither of them could really understand. An though he knew they meant well, their attempts to talk to him about this distance of his didn't – or couldn't – change anything.

True friendship exists when silence between two people is comfortable.

Because people don't always want the truth. Like when your girlfriend asks if a particular outfit makes her look fat, you should tell her she looks beautiful.

but it's her kindness i think i like best because i've been around long enough to know how rare something like that really is.

When podcasts are in charge there will be no wars, just ears. That will probably be our motto, but in Latin. In our podcastian future, we'll comprehend that each story has another angle, every case a contradictory piece of evidence.

My grandmother had a motto that you should never look down on people unless you are helping them up, and I think that's a very spiritual way of living.

I think the parts that I played sort of broke the mould in terms of - you know, I played grey characters, the bad girl with a good heart, there was a good reason for her to be bad.

I'm not ever going to be a big bat flip guy. I don't really care. But the guy on the mound might care, so that's a risk.

We don't help people mourn in our society.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

My biggest learning has been understanding that celebrating someone's life is more important than mourning the loss of one.

I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.

I've made it my business to condition and train folks to understand that you'll never know what's going to come out of my mouth.

You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.

I will be completely honest: when I fought in Manchester, they were very cruel to me. One fan actually spat directly in my face, and he was lucky enough where it hit my mouth.

I like to laugh at myself and sometimes I put my foot in my mouth, but I don't mean any harm.