Lindsay Wagner Quotes

I find that one must accept the people in such a way as they are.

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us

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 am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

Like people and let them know it.

Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

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.

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

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.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.