Empathetic Quotes

Empathetic Quote of the day

We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's just sort of in our DNA. And so portraiture is a very human act.

I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people.

Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

I think sometimes the very reason we go through something is so that we can be empathetic with another person later on.

We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.

You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.

I think to be empathetic is the greatest gift you can have as a designer. Hopefully, people will look at me and say, 'He really loved women.'

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

Hillary Clinton's not seen as empathetic and compassionate.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

My personality is very good for nurturing. I'm very empathetic to my artists. You speak to anyone who's worked with me and they'll say, "Oh yeah, Steve's great. He doesn't have the ego."

Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation for the miracle of life.

I love everything. I love being the empathetic characters. I love being the villains. I think it's like when we're kids, we like to play all kinds of crazy characters and dress up.

The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.

We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.

It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

Politicians are supposed to be empathetic. And, yes, I am, actually.

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.

And as such, we need to be empathetic and understanding.

And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

Completely understand the customer by seeking an intense, complete and empathetic understanding.

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.

So much in TV today, you don't get to feel empathetic for the villain. The villains are the villains and the heroes are the heroes. It's very black and white.

What is your personal definition of "good"? A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.

When it comes to social issues, Republicans dont just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why.

Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.

The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.

Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

Be the person you needed when you needed help.

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.

Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for.

Apathy is the door to ignorance. Empathy is the door to wisdom.

When humanity suffers from the darkness of violence, I will bring the empathetic, soft, kind, light from the moon to enlighten humanity.

Remember:all the thoughts you have of yourself and others are written on your face. Make them kind.

A kind word will never replace the conversation that God has prompted you to repeatedly have.

Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.

I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.

You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.

There's no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity.

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

The agony of the empath is feeling their pain but being unable to save them from it.

If you have never walked a mile in someone’s shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet.