Quotes About Empathy

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.

I believe no matter who you are, respect yourself, respect others.

If you want to be happy, make others happy!

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

That's the secret to anything we write. You have to bring your experience to it. Otherwise, how do you expect anyone else to connect to it?

It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don't think the movie would work otherwise.

We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

We ought to be vigilantes for kindness and consideration.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

It's insulting when somebody who is not a member of our community feels like they have a great understanding of what it's like to grow up gay in this country.

Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great.

We need to look marginalized people in our community in the eye and listen to their stories of struggle, heartache and impossibility.

Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

When you show people on the big screen that could be our next-door neighbour or our cousin, it does have an impact on our lives.