Quotes About Empathy

With music that I write, I like to have in there something you can relate to, a way to share the experience.

I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.

Feeling alone and unseen can intensify the experience of being harassed, shamed, or bullied.

When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.

I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience."

Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.

The biggest mistake we make in creating successful relationships is that we seek to experience who we are through others rather than allowing others to experience who they are through us.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

GLOUCESTERNow, good sir, what are you?EDGARA most poor man made tame to fortune's blows, Who by the art of known and feeling sorrowsAm pregnant to good pity.

Diversity of opinions is not what is stopping people from living together in harmony. Stupidity is

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.

If someone calls you a failure it's more than likely they feel like one.