Aleksandr Kuprin Quotes

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.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

I feel like the world would be a better place if more people experienced a little bit of someone else's experience.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'

If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything, I think any feeling person would experience similar things if given the same opportunities to see the things I've been lucky enough to see and meet the people I've been lucky enough to meet.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

The name 'Reflect It Back' comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.