Quotes About Empathy

People with Tourettes.....What makes them tick?

I have to stop crying when I watch "The View". It's not because of the topics at hand, I just feel sorry for that couch.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all.

It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something.

Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.

I used to be scared of pretty girls, until one confessed they're just as scared of me.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like "shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah.

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.

Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!" said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

There's a fine line between support and stalking and let's all stay on the right side of that.

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.

If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.

I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.

Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.

It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.