Dante Alighieri Quotes

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.

I consider all drama to be the opportunity to see the world from another person's point of view. That seems to be the point of drama, really. And thereby to encourage understanding and even love.

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.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

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.

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

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.

Respect the burden.

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

True contentment comes with empathy.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

It is a funny thing how hard it is to see the other fellow's point of view.

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

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

Love is something that we need to learn.

An open mind is prerequisite to an open heart.

When you see yourself as the center of things, it deprives you of a certain level of empathy.

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.