Quotes About Empathy

Michael Avenatti's message to Donald Trump supporters: Open your eyes and realize that you've been coned but we don't blame you.

We assume that people want to do a good job. When they don't, we assume that something happened to them to make them do otherwise.

Let's start this feeling, this mental posture, fraternity, to see in each human being a brother.

Don't feel guilty. Do something to make it better. Help us heal by standing—or sitting—alongside us.

In that moment I saw the part of the man that makes me feel pity: he has no ability to walk in other people's shoes, to see the world from another perspective, from Puerto Rico to the NFL.

That's what is happening every time we kill an Iraqi, every time we kill anyone, we are creating a large number of people who are going to want vengeance. And, you know, when are we ever going to learn that that doesn't work?

My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

Living as a richer person among the poor is very stressful

In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows has a part.

Save the people you love, who cares about the rest of the world? - Uncle Jake

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

In a close-up, choose just one eye of the actor you're playing opposite, don't skip between the eyes or you will just look shifty;

True friends define each other.

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company

Never hate your enemies, it affects you judgment.

That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.

St. John of the Cross: "Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.

She says that Our Lord told her, "if you want to be like Me, then take up your cross with love and joy.

When developing and designing products that invite people to use them, just do it right from the start and put your heart into it. It's harder and it takes longer, but everyone wins in the end.

We came to know that love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it.

Do not hate them. They do not know they are evil. They are blind. If you hate them, if you kill them in your heart, they will not die. They will rise up again and again within you, and they will kill your heart.