Quotes About Empathy

and do not rebuff them, but speak to them in kindly terms. 24. ?And lower the wing of humility to them out of compassion, and say,

The motto is, focus on understanding, not on being understood.

a poor friendless child, apparently ten years old; but she seemed hunger bitten; and sufferings of that sort often make children look older than they are.

Though Jesus was in torture on the cross, He thought of praying for His persecutors, of caring for His mother, of securing the good thief's salvation.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

I'm interested in stories that help me, people navigate in this broken world.

It's funny that through learning how to physically fight, you also learn how to navigate really complicated and hard conversations with people.

My mom had a sense that... there are always these barriers up for certain groups of people. That's always been core to how I understand the world and navigate it.

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

I am somebody who never came close to a physical altercation, because I was too scared of even getting near one - I'd probably just start crying.

I could actually care less about the poor. We have some living near us, and pee-yew. They are always coming and going to their three or four jobs at all hours of the day and night. Annoying!

I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.

If you claim to represent and speak for the people, and they are forced to pay your salary, you have a duty to experience life as near as possible to the way others live it.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

I've met so many leaders who realize that telling your colleagues something that is on your mind is so much easier than keeping it in. Sometimes the things we make up in our heads are not nearly as big a deal as we think.

I am quite hard to live with, and I know that if I go through a bad run, I'm not the best company and am best left alone. But I'm not nearly as bad as people like to make out.

Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally.

I've had a mental illness for nearly half my life, and I can no longer imagine myself without it. It seems less like something that happened to me than like part of who I am; some days, it is the thing about me, but it is always at least a thing about me.

It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

It's neat seeing people that aren't necessarily part of my demographic who really get the jokes. I love it.

What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic.