Quotes about Empathy

Our feelings of sympathy do not embrace all of humanity in equal measure. Some human beings matter to us. We care intensely about their well-being. Others do not matter very much, and still others do not matter at all. This is a hard saying, and may be difficult to accept but it is obviously and undeniably true.

He said the best contract lawyers were the ones who heard the unspoken. The hopes and dreams and fears that both sides held, sometimes so tightly they didn't even know it themselves. A good contract attorney has to be a mediator first and foremost. And the best mediator is someone who can translate conflicting emotions into some form of harmony. But to do that, they have to look beneath the surface. See the unseen. Hear the unspoken.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

I'm merely trying to be something akin to a nice, kind, good actress.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

I don't think I'm better than anyone else.

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.

Never give up on anybody.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

We are all the same inside. We have the same heartaches and joys, the same fears and ambitions. Money doesn't change who we are.

The scars don't define you. Who you really are inside is what matters. Any woman with real depth would know that.