Dorothy Dunnett Quotes

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

I love people. I enjoy people.

I actually really love people.

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

It's not a very nice thing to not have empathy. I would like to have empathy. In the past I haven't been very empathetic with other people.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.

We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.

Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of humanity and all beings. Please help us develop the curriculum for the Institute for the Happiness of One Person. Don't wait until we open the school. You can begin practicing right away.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

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

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

I like people.

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.