Quotes about Empathy

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.

When you try to be a role model, not everybody can relate to some of your highs - awards, championships. But everybody can relate to the lows. Everybody's gotten fired from a job or gotten cut. People learn more about you in those lows than they do in the highs.

People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.

I consider the homeless just as important as the richest of the rich.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.