Quotes About Empathy

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.

Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.

I have family members that are bipolar. One had a case recently that I witnessed, and it was very, very helpful.

When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.

I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.

We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.

There was a lot of creative energy that I had, that I feel wasn't understood, and I think that whole world for me felt like another family, another place where I could feel heard.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.