Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

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

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

I love that idea that if you know someone's story, it's impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I'm concerned.

Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.

This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.

You can't have empathy for somebody that's gone through something you haven't - because, definitionally, you can't. But you can feel for them and have sympathy for them. And that's what this country needs to practice more. It's about realizing that you do come from a different place.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

The name 'Reflect It Back' comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else.

For me, I feel like I relate to a lot of people.