Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

I'm a mammal at the end. I breathe out and breathe in and eat. At the end, when we go to sleep, nobody lives this political definition. It's something we connect by and we try to understand each other by, but at the end, we know that this is not who we are.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

Every person you meet has a story.

I enjoy learning about other people. I really didn't understand that until 'Moonlight.'

People will never forget how you made them feel.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

I've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.