Jon Stewart Quotes

The adage is true: Walk a mile in my shoes - or drive a mile in my car. There is nothing quite like sitting in the seat yourself.

Men and women serving in the military deserve better than what they're giving - what we're giving them. They don't know what they're going to be doing tomorrow.

As the wife of a retired Navy commander and the representative of the district covering Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, Washington, I see firsthand the permanent effects of war - both physical and psychological - on those who serve our country.

I would like to see someone walk a mile in my shoes for five minutes.

Walk a day in my shoes and you'd be irritable too.

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.

but you could also look at it the other way. Like you’re saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

For me, I think it's such an important thing to hear other people's stories, because you do find ways that either you can learn something from them, or you can identify with something that they've gone through. You realize that maybe what you're going through in life isn't just specific to you, that somebody else understands it, or you talk to someone and all of sudden you see something in a completely different way because of what they've said to you or shared with you.

You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

I can tell you and promise you that I've had struggles in my life. And I would love to have people understand that Mitt and I have compassion for people that are struggling.

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

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

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

I don't want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

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.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.