Quotes About Empathy

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own.

The damaged love the damaged. True fact.

I'm giving you my life to prove to myself I can, I really can love somebody. Even when I'm not getting paid, I can give love and happiness and charm. You see, I can handle the baby food and the not talking and being homeless and invisible, but I have to know that I can love somebody. Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody.

We opened our hearts. Hear me, heal me, save me, believe me.

When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just waiting for their turn to speak

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

All I want is somebody to ask me what happened. Then, I'll get on with my life.

Our humanity isn't measured by how we treat other people, our humanity is measured by how we treat animals.

Because I can't save anybody; not as a doctor, not as a son. And because I can't save anybody, I can't save myself.

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

Scratching Yogi's ears Michelle says 'That's just part of his job, the comforting. That's what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he's more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being. This is a trait that more people should encompass.

The first time you meet that some­one spe­cial, you can count on them one day be­ing dead and in the ground.

Ideally, you should be combining gesture, action, and expression with your dialogue.

Stick and stones may break your bones and words can kill you too

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

The damaged love the damaged.

When we remember someone as a drunk, a liar, a bully, we're only creating an excuse for our own poor behavior.

We're all mis­er­able to­geth­er.

Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive.

Give me pity. Flash. Give me empathy. Flash.

People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak.