Quotes About Empathy

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

The more I show what I'm going through, the more I can give answers, the more I can help those on the outside looking in.

I think when things get hard with your family, it's really easy to want to isolate yourself. The world is so harsh, so when stuff happens outside, you want to go to your family, but when stuff happens inside your family, you sort of start to feel like, 'I'm alone. There is no place I can go to where just nothing will happen to me.'

It's almost impossible to get the outside world to take any notice of homelessness at all.

I always felt an outsider.

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

The only time I used to feel like an outsider was when I first went to India.

I will carry with me always the deep sense of what it feels like to be an outsider and how tough it was, how hard it was to adapt to this country.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.

I do know what it's like to be an outsider.

Everybody feels like an outsider at some point in their lives.

Every time you come across someone who looks like an outsider, the best way to go about it is to open your mind a little bit. You have to try to understand somebody who isn't like you.

Difficulty empathising translates into a whole set of hurdles. You might be last person to get the point of a joke, which can leave you feeling like an outsider. You might end up saying something that another person finds hurtful or offensive, when that was the last thing you intended.

I'm an immigrant, and I think being an outsider in your home is something that I really relate to.

Well, I've always felt connected to the outsider.

When you are an outsider, no one is ready to meet you or listen to you. People have even said that there are thousands of Sonu Soods out there, and they don't have time to cater to each one of them.

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

People have asked me about playing outsiders. I don't consider myself an outsider. Maybe that's why I'm interested in that. I'm not really sure.

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

I'm definitely drawn to stories about outsiders. Feeling like that myself as a gay black man, I often seek to give a voice to those in the world who don't have one.

I feel like theater in high school seems to be sort of like the safe haven for the outsiders and people who don't necessarily fit in. And it was a come-as-you-are sort of class, and it's a come-as-you-are after-school activity.