Quotes about Empathy

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them.

There is nothing remotely dignified about sorting through rotting trash to find something to feed your child, or asking someone for money because you have none (anyone who has contrived to give people money before they had to ask will never forget the look of gratitude in their eyes).

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

To me, it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from - if you're a good person and you got my back, I got yours.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Im hoping that for film actors there is this kind of emotional trigger on any subject. It need not be only slums. It can be anything. But even if it is tentative, sooner or later, it will - by its sheer force - engulf you in a way where you make a commitment and you get involved in it, beyond just making it an image-building exercise.