Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.

To know is not less than to feel.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

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

Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.

We can only know others by ourselves.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

It is by love alone that we understand anything

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

He who knows himself knows others.

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person.

I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.