Stephanie Allain Quotes

Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.

I've taken on impossible fights before and won and I've done it not by taking on the tactics and techniques of demagogues and bullies but by calling people to our higher angels, calling to the moral imagination of communities about what we can be and what we can achieve together.

I want to enlighten the world. We all need it. We need love and light.

We all want to win against all odds. We all want to be loved. We all wish it was possible to change our world and to make our world a better place.

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.

I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

I believe in dreams. Being a Merlin, I also believe in magic; the kind of magic that begins when someone who cares reaches out for a child.

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

I've had enough of the bleak headlines and divisive politics, dark TV dramas and hate-filled social media. I'm embracing a new movement with a slightly ridiculous name and a single mission, to make the world a better place. It's called 'hopepunk'.

Even though I was super personal with 'American Teen,' I want to tap in and not just tell my own stories but tell the stories of other people - so that I can help as many people as possible.

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.