Phyllis A. Whitney Quotes

I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.

Compassion is very important, especially right now in America. We all need to strive as human beings to understand each other and ourselves better.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

When I meet a new person, I don’t see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.

The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few bad encounters with some of its members. ... Intimacy's a greater goal to seek. ...That true knowledge of intimacy within our own species will allow us to pass it along to interspecies relations.

Loving one another is half of wisdom.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.

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.'

It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them.

I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better.

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?

The truth is, rarely can a response make something better - what makes something better is connection.

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.