Vince Staples Quotes

The most important thing for us to do as beings is to be aware of our position in the world on a micro and macro level.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.

We think empathy is innate, but it's not. It's a muscle you're working.

The true artform is being a human being.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like to look at the world you're in.

If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.

I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

Love springs from awareness.

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.