Quotes About Empathy

I did this movie, 'A Walk Among the Tombstones' - I truly play a horrible, horrible individual in that - and I would occasionally go to the theater and watch what people's responses were, and they would laugh. He makes jokes, and people would respond to him in a human way. Then I've really done my job if I've humanized a really horrible person.

As actors, we have the best job in the world, but occasionally it can be made difficult by ego and by not listening to each other and lack of communication.

It's probably a generalisation to say this, but occasionally I'll see a bloke who laughs only after he's checked his girlfriend did. I tend to imagine that's a rocky relationship, to be fair.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.

Music has healed me on so many different occasions, and I want my music to be able to do that for someone else.

I've talked to people of every race and occupation. The bottom line is that we're all the same.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

Sunrise is the time to feel that you will be able to find out how to help somebody close to you, who you think needs help even if he doesn't think so. At sunrise, everything is luminous, but not clear.

It is easy to comprehend people who are weaker than ourselves, but it is not as simple to be ready for the true feelings of those more powerful.

It was better than floods of misery that a son of her flesh had killed the sons of other mothers. That burned in her heart like the pain which flared in the arthritis of her knees. Pain was a boring conversationalist who never stopped, just found new topics. Bess

Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.

but I am infinitely more sorrowful about the two victims' families than the fact Mr. Gilmore is no longer alive.

And with it all, he was proud of himself. He had brought his mother to tears. "Let her cry for once. Not me. It is time for her to learn.

You have to know you can take a human life before you ever put on a police uniform.

Once in a while, like a mist passing across the sky, she would feel a strange communion with him, as if a thought had passed back and forth, and she felt happy that the strain was removed from his life and he had been set free. It was paradoxical, but she felt good about that.

It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Focus on people and the needs they have.

People who are able to turn criticism into a positive situation are going to attract friends.

Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many.

She said that whenever she feels the old insidious chill of loneliness beginning to creep back into her life, she picks up the phone and calls someone who may be lonelier than she is.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible. ~ Norman Vincent Peale