Taylor Goldsmith Quotes

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

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

Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

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.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.

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

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.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us

The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.

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

Ninety-five percent of the time, I put myself in somebody else's position - that's how I live.

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

It helps to be more interested in other people than you are in yourself. Inhabiting other characters is what I do.

I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.

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.

I never had to put myself in somebody else's shoes.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.