Jessie Vargas Quotes

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.

Please remember, no matter what you go through in life, somebody else might have it harder.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.

On 'Awkward,' we really like to send the message out that we're relatable, and that we get what people are going through.

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.

It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.

I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

People could empathize with other people who had gone through the same experience as they had.

It's always marvelous to have somebody who, you know, you feel understands and wants to encourage.

The contrasting focus on connection versus hierarchy also sheds light on innumerable adult conversations - and frustrations. Say a woman tells another about a personal problem and hears in response, 'I know how you feel' or 'the same thing happens to me.' The resulting 'troubles talk' reinforces the connection between them.

There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.

Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.

'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.

When you are in someone's home, in their bed, you see the world from their eyes. You understand 'the other' is not so other.

I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to resist alongside them.