Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

I love that idea that if you know someone's story, it's impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I'm concerned.

I like to see the joy in people's' faces. I like to see when they actually question that I'm not afraid to answer and give them my respect and honesty with what I have to say to them.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

My grandmother had a great saying. It always stuck with me: 'People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.' They've got to see it and feel it. And it's for real. And that's all. Be who you are.

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

I'm the straight-talking woman in your life who is going to be really honest with you, but come from a place of love. I'm not talking down to you; I do this from my heart.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

The name 'Reflect It Back' comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.

I hope that people will get to know me and give me the opportunity to get to know them and just respect what I'm doing because I respect how they feel and their thoughts as well.

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

Try and spread a lot of love and affection around the world. The most important thing is not to 'con' the public. Be real.

You can never take those you love for granted, and you have to be willing to be open and really communicate with one another to make any relationship work. And that's just it: relationships take work, and they take compromise and compassion and understanding.

There's nothing you can't tell to an audience, because they're all people who've had lives. The only thing they don't want to watch is someone who's really angry or out of control.'

We need to get our hearts straight. And after we get the hearts straight, we can treat each other straight.

If you listen to what I'm saying, there's always a reason for it. Always. And it always comes from my heart, a place of love.