Quotes About Empathy

Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.

I will never forget what it was like coming out and having nobody to look up toward.

I definitely relate to any kid who has lived without running water or electricity or having to be the smelly kid going to school because you don't have the resources. It's hard. I really relate to them and I want to help them as much as possible. It's a unique situation that you'll never forget where you came from.

Never give up on anybody.

You can never take those you love for granted, and you have to be willing to be open and really communicate with one another to make any relationship work. And that's just it: relationships take work, and they take compromise and compassion and understanding.

When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.

My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.

You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.

If I meet someone who's Native American and I don't know anything about indigenous people in New Jersey - which I kind of don't, which is not really good - I can learn more and more about their lives, and that makes me a more open person and a more accepting person.

There's been so much that I've shared with the world, and by doing so, it's helped me connect with others on a whole new level. I love that, as I want people to watch 'Total Divas' and be able to relate themselves to what we go through. My hopes are that they realize we are all in this 'thing called life' together.

The concept of bettering yourself at the disadvantage of others is out the door, and the new one is to help one another while helping yourself.

When you listen with memory, you have an old agenda, and when you listen with desire, you have a new one. You can't listen to the other person if your agenda is overtaking you.

I'd like to shapeshift into any person, to understand a new perspective, and hope that that changes my perspective.

My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.

As long as you have balance, you can experience all of the things going on in the world and reach out and meet people and try new things, and you shouldn't be judged for it.

I think that the idea of sharing is something that has been lost in our social conscience, and we need to re-think that. We need to learn a new way.

I got to express myself in a whole new way as a different person on camera, in a different way as an actress, and I loved it.

It's important to tell meaningful stories and to find new ways to communicate those stories to people.

It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say, 'It's someone else.'

We have a good connection - New Yorkers, American fans, Argentinean fans and me.

People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'

First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.

I can't read the newspaper without crying. I'm easily affected by horrible events, you see.