Quotes About Empathy

The two main attributes of MindTree culture are high achievement orientation and high caring.

I wouldn't want anyone to tell me that I couldn't marry the person I loved, and I don't want to do that to anyone else regardless of sexual orientation.

My dear compatriots, I'm not interested in your race, your origin, your sexual orientation. What interests me is your happiness.

I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.

When Grant Hill came back to Orlando after having all of his surgeries, I was the first person to call him and congratulate him for making it back. It seemed like nobody cared about what I was dealing with.

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me.

I don't see myself only as a member of the New Orleans community. I see myself as a part of the human community. I see myself as a part of the community that's trying to put things in the world that add value to people's lives.

I think I was fortunate that even in the children's home I had a boyfriend. How important it was, as an orphan at the age of 12, to be caressed and to be kissed and to know that there is someone who really deeply cared about me.

When I think back, the neighbors were always sayin', 'Oh, that poor Julie, that poor orphan.' I loved it. The Italians would invite me in for dinner - it was an Italian neighborhood mostly. Oh, I loved it.

Now that our mother has died, we're two orphans, Angie and I, so she has a deep understanding of the orphans she adopts.

We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

We all need each other.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.

I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.

We should treat other countries the way we want to be treated.

I'd like to help other kids with dyslexia, because I'm dyslexic. It was very hard, and I know that what I went through, other kids are going through.

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.

The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

For a few years, we lived with our grandmother in Kingston, and I remember watching the other kids with their mums and just feeling really jealous. I didn't fully understand what my mum was doing for us. I just knew that she was gone. My grandma was amazing, but everybody wants their mum at that age.

I grew up with a special-needs brother, and the separation from other kids is so extreme. We've got to break down those barriers.

My daughter told me, 'Daddy, if I don't make it, I don't want you to stop helping these other kids.' So that's where I've been able to go on. I tell people - and I really believe this - I didn't lose a daughter; I gained so many other kids.