Andrew Stanton Quotes

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

There's nobody you can't love once you know their story. I believe that to be, in the majority, true.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

If I could have one wish, it would be for people to look at one another with open hearts and minds. Most of all, to look at each other with compassion. No matter who they are.

Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

You can’t hate someone whose story you know.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.

If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.