Quotes About Empathy

I don't think people should try to force their will on their family.

Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for.

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

My own personal rule is to tell jokes that I think the person I'm making them about can laugh at, to go home and tell their family, oh, my gosh.

I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

I like that sense of family in my workplace, having the same pair of eyes to look into.

I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer.

Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw no pity it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

The real question isn't whether or not you love your kids but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

I'm the only one in - of my siblings, my mom and my family - that hasn't been affected by Lyme disease. It's been really hard for me because I'm the only one that doesn't really understand it.

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

It is not what you give your friend but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of your friendship.

It is not the talking that counts between friends it is the never needing to say what counts.