Denis Diderot Quotes

Being sensitive means caring for your own feelings as well as those of others.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.

I really care about people, and I would need someone to also genuinely value other human beings and want to be connected with people in the world and to know about other cultures. That might not be a high standard for someone else, but for me, it's really important to try and stick to that.

There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation. To change people's minds, you have to respect the people you're talking to.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.

You don’t address their brains. You address their hearts.

People forget that everyone has feelings, regardless of their career choice.

Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

I don't get emotional.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.

I love everything about the human experience.

I'm an emotional player.

I'm a normal person. I'm just like you and just like everyone else - I have feelings and thoughts.

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.

Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.

If I could have one wish, it would be for people to look at one another with open hearts and minds. Most of all, to look at each other with compassion. No matter who they are.