Quotes About Empathy

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

You have to remember: the wife been home all day cleaning asses and feeding faces. Sometimes the opposite.

My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn't belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.

I'd feel more comfortable talking to the blacks, or Hispanics, or the poor areas. I feel more at home, believe it or not.

Personally, I don't like watching films about victims - people where you're meant to think, 'Oh, this is terrible,' and you go home feeling really depressed.

Strange, that certain superiority the goer-away feels for the stayer-at-home.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'

I think a lot of nights together have been spoiled by somebody not being able to find a parking spot and saying, "Why don't we just go home?"

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

As long as children are still getting kicked out of their homes by parents, getting bullied, commuting suicide, et cetera. it's definitely still worth talking about.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.

Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no.

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.