Quotes About Empathy

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

I'd play music on the street, especially in developing nations where a lot of kids couldn't wear shoes. In order to relate with kids that would be following me barefoot, I would take off my shoes, and they would all laugh at me because I couldn't go three steps without wincing.

I understand the whole constant foreigner stereotype, but for me it's important to portray immigrant characters like Jian-Yang and Danny Meng with humanity.

People are so quick to demonize and stereotype those on the other side that they often say that it's impossible to work with people on the other side.

Humans can be cruel - kids and adults alike. That doesn't mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype.

I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with empathy and no judgment.

we have a penchant to pay close attention to information that comes to us in the form of a story or personal account.

What would it be like if we dealt with the world around us as a playground, full of children learning and growing? Would this perspective allow us to deal with others in a more compassionate and loving way? (pg. 61)

How can someone insult and demean their own people to defend others when those that are being defended have no say in it or even have no animus towards the supposed offender?

You bond with customers by talking more about what's most important to them (their problems), rather than whatever might be most important to you (your solutions).

If you want to motivate people, then it's more important to think about what they want, rather than what you want.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.

The tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Enquire not what boils in another's pot.

He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.