Quotes About Empathy

True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.

Unconditional love is so important for people with addiction.

I would want everyone to love someone in the purest sense of the word - an unconditional love in which you don't expect anything in return.

I still can't believe that I was accepted by Telugu audiences because I don't know Telugu. Without knowing me, the Telugu people gave me their unconditional love.

As I got older, I learned about how some people treated their transgender children, and I was shocked. I couldn't understand how someone would leave their child and throw them on the street. I was always taught you give your kid unconditional love and if you don't, something's wrong with you, for real.

The unconditional love I feel for my son, I can only imagine what my parents feel for me. And it has made me love and respect my parents more.

Anyone who has a family member, son, daughter, brother, cousin who has special needs you understand what I mean about unconditional love. You're going to have some tough times. You're going to have a lot of great times, but you're going to have some tough times, some tough days. It's not easy.

If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.

When I came out, everybody in my life that said they loved me unconditionally turned around and said, 'Never mind!'

I love how my mom loves everyone unconditionally.

Given my own experience, I would still prefer it if my son were not gay. I would love him and accept him unconditionally, of course. But I know that even in this day and age, life is still harder for gay people.

As for gays, the church needs to be more loving, unconditionally, and willing to see these people as human beings, to minister to them and try to understand.

One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.

On the unconscious level, touch seems to impart a subliminal sense of caring and connection.

Mirroring is simply repeating what someone just said. It creates more reception from the other side, it focuses attention, and it gives them an opportunity to dial in more with you and you to dial in more with them. It causes an almost completely unconscious response for the person to want to go on.

Well, fans always root for the underdog.

I think fans fall in love with the so-called underdog.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'

I feel like I'm always on the right side of wrong and trying to shout out for the underdog.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

I had to really work for everything. I'm definitely an underdog. I think Jesus made me be in that situation to be able to relate to more people. That's why give back to the at-risk kids.

I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity for empathy and it comes out more powerfully in this movie than in any of his other films, even the formal 'I'm identifying with the underdog' movies like 'Born on the Fourth of July.'

I always identified with that feeling of being an underdog. So I always was looking to connect with and meet people from other cultures, to experience people living a different life that I am.

Clevelanders care about underdogs, partly because we are, partly because we have empathy, and we're - we have faith in our God and faith in humanity, and that makes us support the underdog.