Quotes About Empathy

Having strangers bash you is something you never get used to.

All asylum seekers at our border should remind us that we are a nation of immigrants and that we were once strangers at the border.

The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with them.

There's no law against asking strangers about their lives and feelings, although sometimes it really feels like there is.

The best teacher is an audience. The ideal performance is when that group of strangers sitting in the dark gets energy from the group in the light and sends energy back to us. When it really works, a perfect circle is formed.

I love talking to strangers and absorb their life experiences.

I was way more comfortable in front of strangers than I was in front of relatives. So when they would laugh at my dysfunctions or my anxiety, I felt less alone, and I still do it for the same reason.

When someone dies, it's good to mail a note. Don't send an e-mail. You have to send a card. Everyone should have cards and stamps kicking around. I have some very simple stationery, just nice card stock with my name at the top. When the news is happy, e-mail is fine. You can e-mail congratulations about babies, weddings, anything. But when it's not? If it's a death or other bad news, you have to be more formal.

We should aim to make ours a world where people feel free to do things they enjoy, even if others are mildly inconvenienced, but also one where we all refrain from harming other people if the effort involved to avoid harming them is small.

Not asking what a statistic actually means is a failure of empathy, too.

nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others" (Philippians 2:3–4).

Suffering is an art.

There were colleagues and acquaintances aplenty, but she was the closest thing he had to a good friend.

Hell is people," she said. "What?" "An old android saying," she replied.

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each othereverywhere.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

whenever I wanted to know what the Irish people wanted I had only to examine my own heart and it told me straight off what the Irish people wanted.

I know for a good many months we did as much as we could to get property destroyed. I know that if a good deal more property was destroyed... I know they think a great deal more of property than of human life.

There's no use arguing with someone's subjective experience,

That intimacy is nice, too - knowing that you know so much about someone.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

The best exercise for the human heart is reaching down to lift someone else up.

The best exercise for your heart, is reaching out and helping somebody.

A Cleaner thinks, If I'm feeling nervous, how the fuck are they feeling? They have to deal with me.