Gedde Watanabe Quotes

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

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

You'll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I'm just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain't ashamed to cry. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man's jaw with his fist.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.