Quotes About Empathy

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

I've learned over the years that sooner or later a person's physical appearance comes to resemble whatever is in their heart.

How do you make someone understand what it means or how it feels to be torn in half? Not many people know this desperate need to be put back together again.

When we arrived we were met by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, both producers of the film. Lorri and I hadn't seen them in over a month and had missed them a great deal. As soon as I heard those New Zealand accents, the feel of "home" washed over me again. They have been with me every step of the way since my release, helping me. Thinking of them now makes my heart feel like it's about to burst with love.

Perhaps it's just me, but I don't think Jesus' words were meant to be tied to a brick and chunked through your neighbor's window at midnight. Anytime you drop a picture of Christ in the mailbox while muttering a self-righteous "This'll teach 'em," something has gone terribly wrong.

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

More is achieved by love than hate. Hate is the downfall of any race or nation.' Josephine Baker

I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.

It also comes as a surprise that the term was invented not to talk about altruism or acts of kindness, but to explain how we can enjoy a sonata or a sunset. Empathy, for Vischer, was creative seeing, reshaping the world so as to find ourselves reflected in it. In

Rorschach's dissertation, which he finished in 1912, set out to define the physiological pathways that make empathy in Vischer's sense possible. "On 'Reflex Hallucinations' and Related Phenomena" may be a brain-numbing title in English, but the subject was nothing less than the connection between what we see and how we feel. Reflexhalluzination was a technical psychiatric

he is incapable of examining his own pain like a spore on a slide and finding it interesting, interesting. If your own pain is interesting to yo, how much more detached will you be from somebody else's pain...

Enemy?' Horus laughed. 'When did they become the enemy? They are men like us.' He glared up at the night sky, threw back his head and screamed a curse at the stars. Then his voice fell to a whisper. Loken was close enough to hear his words. 'Why have you tasked me with this, father? Why have you forsaken me? Why? It is too hard. It is too much. Why did you leave me to do this on my own?

You are walking along the shores of a lake,' Sindermann said. 'A boy is drowning. Do you let him drown because he was foolish enough to fall into the water before he had learned to swim? Or do you fish him out, and teach him how to swim?' Loken shrugged. 'The latter.' 'What if he fights you off as you attempt to save him, because he is afraid of you? Because he doesn't want to learn how to swim?' 'I save him anyway.

religion that cannot survive looking at itself through the eyes of others does not deserve to survive.

Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.

After more than two decades here, I know that kindness is not a value that's encouraged. It's often seen as a weakness. Instead, the culture encourages keeping your head down, minding your own business, and never letting yourself be vulnerable.

I've learned that speaking to people creates a pathway into their world, and it lets them come into mine, too.

IF I HAVE ONE OPERATING PHILOSOPHY ABOUT LIFE, it is this: "Be cool to the pizza delivery dude; it's good luck." Four principles guide the pizza dude philosophy.

something as simple as my care. I believe that caring for something or someone in need is what makes us human.

Up on the mountain, my most valuable possessions were my relationships with my neighbors.

The American Dream I believe in now is a shared one. It's not so much about what I can get for myself; it's about how we can all get by together.

My faith is in the belief that sacrifice for others is inherently good and making the choice to do good is the gift of being human.

life. I believe that every person deserves to feel someone acknowledge their presence, no matter how humble they may be or even how important.