Virginia Woolf Quotes

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

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

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 myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.

Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

Love is something that we need to learn.

You really have to be careful about what you do and think about other people around you, as human beings who feel things, and you have to learn to be empathetic and notice the signs of people who are going through trouble.

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

My mother taught me to ask people about the things they love.

I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.

Getting to know people as they are is very, very important.

Every now and then, I am reminded it's not always about politics. It's about people.