Meg Ryan Quotes

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.

That's always what I've tried to do. I've tried to communicate. But at the end of the day, it's still for you to understand something. Understand that the world is bigger than you.

We're human beings trying to love each other. There are constant revelations and room for growth.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful times. And out of that, I get to laugh.

I know when I listen to people speak and they share their weaknesses, I'm listening, because I can resonate.

I try to speak from a place of understanding and most times I'm speaking from a place of experience.

Embrace your vulnerability and celebrate your flaws; it will let you appreciate the world around you and make you more compassionate.

I can't just expect people to know what to say. I have to make them see me as more than my illness.

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

[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.

Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.