Quotes About Empathy

The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.

I still can't get over Sushant Singh Rajput's demise. I got to work with him in 'Dil Bechara.' He was such a jovial and promising guy with no starry tantrums.

I still consider myself to be introverted, but everyone has a side of themselves that is amplified. Performers have to learn to tap into that, even if it's not natural.

We do not have to have the correct answers to listen well. In fact, often the correct answers are a hindrance to listening well, for we become more anxious to give the correct answer than to hear.

recent research has shown that when we empathize, the brain activates many of the same networks as when we ourselves experience pain, physical or otherwise.

If we are a people rich in social relationships, we are rich indeed. Whenever we develop significant friendships with those who are not like us culturally, we become broader, wiser persons.

Little children, love one another.

will not break a bruised reed, or quench a smoldering wick" (Isa. 423; Matt. 12:20).

It is only because of your love, only your love, that the poor will forgive you the bread you give them.

Lord Jesus, as it would please you bring me someone today whom I can serve.

True godliness does not turn us away from hurting, bleeding humanity. Rather it enables us to live fully alive in the midst of human need and enlivens our abilities to bring a healing presence to the bruised and broken around us.

the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.

Is there any way we can purely touch the world again, the way a salamander does, breathing through its skin? Can we become the strands of this shrine we weave ourselves into hoping to emerge into a world where—where what? There is no end to desire, which means no end to regret, no end to our need for an ending, so that even the sky refuses our touch, that sky which, at its bluest, is the most empty.

It's more like how some people can't help but bring out the not necessarily righteous parts of your personality. Like how you meet someone and instantly know they're a full-time professional victim, and no matter how hard you try, something takes over and you can't help needling them.

How do you explain to someone that you understand their fear, then convince them that it's going to be all right? In my experience, the more you talk about what scares them, the worse it gets. There's not much to do but ride out the fear with them and try to keep them away from liquor and razor blades.

I close my eyes. "I keep coming back to this one thought: that I know everything about monsters and nothing about people.

Maggie smiles at that and says, "Please don't upset her. She's fragile." "I'll be like cotton-candy kisses.

That's because for men and women, everything is different. We walk through entirely different worlds. Open your eyes a bit. What you see might not make you happy, but it will make you more human.

As far as assholes go, you're not the biggest one I ever met." "That I'll take as a compliment.

You killed Buzzy." "Yeah. I'm sorry." "Don't be sorry. I'm glad you did it.

Is killing someone always like this?" "Just the first couple of times. After that it's like folding socks. But that's just me." She

Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child.

If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.

Being compassionate is actually very brave because it involves taking an honest look at your own self. In order to feel compassion towards yourself, you must be willing to face your pain instead of burying your head in the sand. That's the essence of bravery.