Susan Vreeland Quotes

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

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.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

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.

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.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

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.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

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

For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about the survival of the human race. That is, it's imperative for us to overcome the challenges we face.

It's not a very nice thing to not have empathy. I would like to have empathy. In the past I haven't been very empathetic with other people.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

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

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

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

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'