Quotes about Connection

In return, I gave him a sounding board for his frustrations.

The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.

The idea that our common humanity mattered more than our differences was stitched into my DNA.

Duty compels us to care about people that we will never meet.

The name's Obama. Where do I belong?

Faulkner reminds us, the past is never dead and buried - it is not even past.

Human beings are members of a whole In creation of one essence and soul.

I held my mother's hand, making sure she was comfortable before she settled in to rest. Then I went back to the hotel room and cried.

Making Compassionate Decisions: The Role of Empathy in Decision Making READING TIME: 19 MINUTES "The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.

Michelle was someone who started from the heart and not the head, from experience rather than abstractions.

The most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels. It has to do with empathy. It has to do with being comfortable with the notion that the world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found, and that you have to strive for that and work for that. And the notion that it's possible to connect with some[one] else even though they're very different from you.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.