Jane Goodall Quotes

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things.

It's important to determine not just the quality of your mind but the fullness of your heart.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

It's critical to be able to see things in other people that sometimes they don't see in themselves.

I do have a bit of empathy I suppose, but it has come more recently as I'm knocking on 30's door and I think I'm getting there.

We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.

Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward. I think the threat of an industry like this is that you can become sort of self-obsessed. There's so much praise being given to you - there's a real threat of exalting the ego.

Explore your web: the needs, the beliefs, and the emotions that are controlling you so there's more of you to give and so you can appreciate what's driving other people. It's the only way our world's going to change.

A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have compassion toward him because a man of understanding can understand the viewpoint of the other also. He knows why the other feels as he feels, he knows why the other is angry, because he knows his own self, and in knowing that, he has known all others.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

We will never be enlightened unless we realize and own what our capacity, from the best of the best to the worst of the worst because then we have more empathy, more compassion, more sympathy for others who do things that are hurtful and harmful and we see, given certain situations, I'm capable of that myself. So, I'm less judgmental.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.