Julien Baker Quotes

Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

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.

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

People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

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.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Keep this question in mind: 'What would I think of this if I exchanged places with the other person?' It paves the way to more successful action.

It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.

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

Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better at it.

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

It's not a very nice thing to not have empathy. I would like to have empathy. In the past I haven't been very empathetic with other people.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.

The ability to understand people is a choice.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

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.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.