Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

There's nothing ever monetarily or fame-seeking or any of the other motivations that sometimes go hand-in-hand with this profession. To me, it's just not like that. I'm on a journey of self-discovery and trying to avoid total existential crisis. That's the kind of operating zone that I'm approaching this business from.

I do think that the strongest character is somebody that you can connect with to your personal self, or at least find the humanity in both of you and start from there.

The true artform is being a human being.

I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.

It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

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

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

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

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.