Quotes About Empathy

If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.

My work is a mitzvah for the eyes & ears...and it will help you forget about your problems by thinking about mine for a change!

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.

Just as it takes work to be in a relationship, so it takes work to not be in a relationship.

Through my work at the Katie Piper Foundation, I've seen how the smallest of kindness can make a difference to someone's life. Even a simple smile instead of a start can lift someone's heart.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

When I work I do it from my heart. And my heart is that I bring love to the world. When I travel around the world I bring my love. I bring so much love in my heart. I hope you can feel that.

You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.

I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.

I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

This really is my life's work, to go where there is suffering.

See with the eyes of love, / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love, / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.