Quotes About Empathy

I want people to help take care of each other at work. That's what I want. Do you know how many hours we spend at work? We spend more time at work than we spend at home. When people are suffering, we don't help enough.

My goal after 9/11 was to take care of the families of the people we lost, and that was the most important thing.

We should be developing spaces and places that are thinking about how we care for the group vs. asking the individual to take care of themselves.

Communication is something we all take for granted.

The letters, the food - I had no idea I wouldn't see a shrimp for three years. You don't look at those little things you take for granted so easy, until you get sat down, get locked up, or get into a position were you see other people who are less fortunate than you - that don't have anybody.

Sometimes you know a friend so well, you take for granted, 'Oh, they're just like this, and they're going to be okay.'

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone's heart strings.

The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.

America has become an exceptional nation not because of what we have taken, but because of what we have given.

It's taken a lot of years for me to learn how to share my story.

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

The relationships we have with dogs seem simple enough and often are taken for granted. But these relationships can be deep and mysterious, and not at all simple.

Sad stories have no takers.

We are givers, not takers.

I don't like people who are just takers.

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they're sorry and an even stronger person to forgive.

I'm a person that takes on situations from passion. I get passionate about things, and I try to help.

No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.

Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They're distant; you can idealize them. But there's room to have compassion for people and see them as human beings. Just because they're royalty, it doesn't mean they don't love or feel loss or feel pain.