Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

To really understand what love is, you've kinda got to dig down deeper than just how you feel at the moment.

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

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

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.

… people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.

Love is a lot more complicated than people think.

I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.

A lot of my friends and the people who know me know I'm a feeling person. I feel, deeply.

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.