Others' Perspectives Quotes

It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.

Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

It's critical to be able to see things in other people that sometimes they don't see in themselves.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.

You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

As a person I don't judge others because I have no idea what circumstances they are in.

It is not your duty or responsibility to change the minds of other people. The nature of their thinking is advanced or limited by their experience. In your presence, they have an opportunity to learn about you and, perhaps, to grow.

Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.

You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.