Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Empathy Quotes
Emotional ResponseEmpathyPerspective Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
ConnectionCreativityEmpathyExpressionUnderstanding No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
AdversityChildhoodEmpathyPoverty Why do I love kids so much? Because I was never a kid myself. I was too poor to really have a childhood.
EmpathyHumilityPerspectiveShared Struggle Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
EleganceEmpathyHeroism Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him.
BelongingEmpathyImmigrationNational IdentityStrangerhood My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
CommunicationConnectionEmpathyFriendshipListening When I talk to kids, I'm really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It's almost like we're friends. Because a friend listens.
EmpathyHardshipRemembranceUnderappreciation The caddies are so overlooked out here, and I remember the tough times I had making ends meet when I used to carry the bag.
EmpathyEqualityRaceSelf WorthUnderstanding Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
EmpathyPerspectiveSuccessValidation We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
EmpathyInnocenceSelf-Discovery Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
EmpathyFamilySolidarity Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.
AwarenessEmpathyFreedomResponsibilitySocial Justice I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
EmpathyPersonal GrowthProfessional DevelopmentSelf-ImprovementUnderstanding Others I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily.
ArtCreativityEmpathyExpressionPersonal Growth When I write, it's like choosing which shoes I'm going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal - but I sometimes have to put myself in other people's shoes.
ConnectionEgoEmpathyHumanity When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
EmpathyHumilityWisdom Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
ConnectionEmpathyHumanity I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.
Character DevelopmentCreativityEmpathyNarrative CraftingStorytelling I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters.
DehumanizationEmpathyHumanityPropaganda The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
AltruismCompassionEmpathyEthicsVirtue I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
EmpathyEqualityProtectionRespectStandards There is no excuse whatsoever for men to harass women in an abusive sexual manner. And, I am devastated that anyone should deem me capable of thinking otherwise.
CreativityEmotionEmpathyMental HealthSelf-Expression Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.
