Quotes About Empathy

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.

A good pastor knows when they can't put two sentences together.

The thing that warms my heart is people. I have just met so many kind folks that want to just pat you on the back and say, 'We love you.'

I don't really want acknowledgement or want people to pat me on the back or whatever. I just want to help the people I feel like I can help and if there's an opportunity where I feel like I can help, I do it.

I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not only about myself but to others. Not to pat myself on the back, empathy is a quality I've cultivated over my life. It came naturally to me as a child.

We shouldn't be too critical of players if they do have lean patches.

I've got alopecia so I've got bald patches all over my head and I grew up with that, so obviously I've become accustomed to it, but it's still not nice when people are saying it in your industry when they know you've got a condition.

I guess we go through multiple rough patches in all of our relationships.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

Everyone has their own path and you can't judge.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

A deep appreciation for politics comes from empathy for our fellow human beings and their diverse paths through life.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

Maybe kindness is not a distraction from or orthogonal to change. Maybe it is a pathway to it.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Girls, they just have something that guys don't have. They've got this patience and this motherly thing, we just don't have that same patience as men.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

My grandfather didn't have any patience for little kids or their needs.

I have no patience for homophobia.

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.

Men need to learn how to deal with women with strength and patience - this is love.