Quotes About Empathy

We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying.

Life is a mirror and you get back what you give out.

People criticising me for my emotional outburst are not humans.

I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud.

I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people made fun of her. I remember hanging out with her, but I was apprehensive about telling anyone I really liked her.

The way I felt growing up, which was like an outcast - I was weird, I was a nerd, I read fantasy books - I think a lot of fantasy book readers and a lot of readers and writers in general have that experience of isolation.

Everyone has been an outcast at one point in their life.

I think everybody can sort of relate to feeling like the outcast and feeling a bit lost and just craving somebody's attention.

Often, just explicitly acknowledging how the other side must see things can help them open up to see your side and can help both parties achieve a fair and constructive outcome.

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

I don't think I extend my hatred to other people's outfits.

Before my mum passed away, I was a very extroverted person; I was very outgoing. I didn't care what people thought about me.

I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

If you don't have an outlet, you become a criminal - or misanthropic.

Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.

I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.

It's amazing how being a dad changes your outlook on life.

Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.

If I can get the audience to connect with the characters emotionally - and they love who they are, they love the larger-than-life situation that they're in, but most of all get the audience invested in the characters - then I always feel like I can sort of put them in the most outrageous circumstances, and the audience is okay to go with that.

I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person - that we're all capable of doing good or bad things. And if you want to know how much good you can do, and how much hurt you can do, just ask somebody you love.

When someone is outright nasty to you that hurts. I really try not to have a negative outlook. I mean, I'm not going to say I'm not disappointed when I read something bad about myself.

I know there are millions of football fans who love this game, but can see the world outside it.

You need not search for the compassionate mind from outside. To know yourself, to know your nature, your mind will automatically be the compassionate one.