Alice Miller Quotes

I'm very human.

There's a power in empathy.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

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

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

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

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.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.