Quotes About Empathy

I feel very in tune with the spiritual world and no one understands it unless you have got that intuition.

I'm always amazed at how records can make you feel like somebody else understands you.

If we want a Parliament that understands people's lives when it takes decisions, it needs to be representative of society, which includes having MPs who are parents of small children - both mums and dads.

You're on an island when you're injured. Nobody understands what you're going through. And everybody's different. Some people heal quicker than others.

I wouldn't say there are alliances at the pageant, but I understand if you can't speak the language, you would want to hang out with someone who understands you.

Everybody understands companionship, wants it, gets it, no matter what it looks like.

Even though we don't speak the same language, we're friends. I still make him laugh. You know it's hard to make Fedor laugh, he don't change his facial expressions at all. I don't even know if he understands what I be saying, but when he gets around me, he be smiling.

When I started making my own music I was listening to people like Erykah Badu and Elliott Smith. I think I always gravitated towards slightly more understated voices because it felt like I could really connect with what they were saying. It felt more like a conversation.

I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

You can find all types of men anywhere, but a smart man will always make you feel important and understood. And a woman can always tell when a man does it genuinely and effortlessly.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

I don't think I understood the full extent of the trauma experienced by people who churn through America's prisons until I began taking the time to listen to their stories.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

All men and women need a roof over their heads and need to be fed and have proper health care. I don't know that I believed that, or even understood that, in the early days.

Human beings are addicted to power in an interesting way, and this is what makes a lot of people feel powerful: belittling people that are commonly belittled. I think if we understood that this was going on, that this was the mechanism at work within us, we wouldn't be that way.

Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.