Trevante Rhodes Quotes

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

I think, at the end of the day, acting and activism are both about empathy. You're trying to get people to see other people as real and human. And to care.

Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as a strength again if there is to be any kind of hope in the world.

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Everyone loves to be loved.

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

We need to learn to observe and listen to people more to get to know them.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.