Quotes About Empathy

We've got to start making people uncomfortable in themselves and not being comfortable being racist or homophobic or any of that. We've got to cut that out from the inside.

We can all be self-destructive. I make terrible choices all the time. It's uncomfortable to admit that you did a thing that was selfish and that you knew would hurt someone else.

I would never ask somebody to do something where I felt that it's not right or it puts someone in an uncomfortable position.

Empathy isn't the same thing as expressing emotions. It's not about sharing your feelings - it can be really uncomfortable if a parent cries or loses strength at the moment her daughter needs it most. The message sent is that you need to be taken care of, not the other way around.

Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable.

Women need to be able to speak out if they are uncomfortable or something happened in the past that they were not comfortable with.

Often, everybody is comfortable with their role in life, and they forget about the people who are uncomfortable.

Nobody should feel uncomfortable at their work place, and nobody should be in a position to make someone feel uncomfortable.

When humans look at each other and look long enough into their eyes, some people are totally uncomfortable with that. I am not.

If my Michael Jackson routine left even one person feeling uncomfortable or less joyful, I felt like it was in everyone's best interest to change the music to my routine.

There should be no individual that is uncomfortable showing up to our events to have a good time with their family that feels some type of way about something they have seen, an object they have seen flying.

So many people dread Thanksgiving because they find it traumatic or uncomfortable. My suggestion is to come with a couple of great questions for the table.

My 30s were a nightmare because I was so uncomfortable. If I could have unzipped myself and stepped out of my body, I would have done.

I've talked about tall poppy syndrome when I see people. I used to be like, 'Why am I feeling this way? What is that person taking from me that makes me feel inadequate?' That same feeling you feel when you feel uncomfortable because people start talking about racism, lean into that feeling, don't just look away from it, because you can't pretend.

I've never had a homosexual or bisexual experience, but it doesn't make me uncomfortable to dip into those feelings. I think a lot of women have those feelings without acting on them.

I am convinced that the better you know your mate off the pitch, the more you are able to work for him on it in uncomfortable situations.

If you are uncomfortable, you make your family uncomfortable because they don't know how to treat you when they come.

Empathy is an uncomfortable force in politics.

Only love is consistent because only love is unconditional.

One thing about Syracuse, whatever you're going through, the love is unconditional.

Real love is unconditional.

We don't want to share our personal problems or personal journey, it's too private - but we should be proud to be carers; it's hard work, it's true work, it's unconditional love.

For isn't that what unconditional love is - sacrificing a little bit of your own happiness so someone else can have theirs?

What I learned from my parents is just to be a source of unconditional love for my children.