Quotes About Empathy

I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.

When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it.

When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

Work will cure your grief. Serve others.

Because of Jesus' finished work of the cross, He will never be angry with you nor rebuke you even when you fail.

"My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.

Do not shift your focus from serving others to focusing exclusively on school, work, or social activities.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.