Milo Ventimiglia Quotes

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

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

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

It's hard to put yourself in someone else's head.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

My understanding of kindness is that we are hoping to be truly beneficial in every situation, and that this desire means a whole suite of things: being nicer, sure, but also being more aware, more present, more articulate, more fearless, less habituated, etc., etc. And sometimes even being firm, or having an edge, or even being angry.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

You should think about the world and feel about your heart.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

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 wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.

When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

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

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.