John Hawkes Quotes

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different. That's when fear dissipates, and that's when we can live the life that we're all supposed to be living.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

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 have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

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.

I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including a child.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

Finding common ground means reaching out with respect and aloha - despite the issues that divide us, despite the hurt, despite the fear - and recognize what unites us as human beings.

Love is something that we need to learn.

To truly feel seen by another person makes you feel so peaceful.

For me, I try to live life every day by getting to know people for who they are and learning from them.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

I love taking people on that journey, which I feel like can open them up to seeing human beings a little more complexly. People that you originally don't like, maybe they have reasons for the way they are, and maybe we can start to understand each other a little better as opposed to being quick to judge and dismiss people.

I think 'understanding' and 'acceptance' are the most important words.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.