Tupac Shakur Quotes

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

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.

Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all of that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you’re coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together.

I'm very human.

I hope people learn the power of vulnerability through my songs. I think vulnerability can save the world. Empathy helps people connect with each other.

Part of acting is always just being available emotionally and open to people.

I don't think I'm a chameleon. I can feel where people are coming from, what makes them tick, where they are vulnerable, what makes them feel good about themselves. I get just as much out of it as they do. I love connecting.

I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

If you're going to make an emotional connection with somebody, whether it's in the story or in the world, there's a certain amount of self-acceptance that is required.

As a therapist, I know that when you're vulnerable, the best way to move on is to admit your vulnerability, don't beat yourself up for it, and try to find a way to analyze your vulnerability. Pull up your socks and try to do better for you and your family.

Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?

I know how hard it is to live your life with your wounds exposed to heal other people

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.

Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.

I think was overly empathetic for a while in my life.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.