Miriam Shor Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Trying to imagine what it's like to be someone else is never a substitute for actually living that way, for acknowledging the respect that we need to have for each other's experiences.

I will never actually be able to know what it's like to go through life in someone else's body.

People treat serious subjects so seriously, which is so obvious a way of dealing with them. I'm always thinking that the best way of dealing with them is to show people as human beings.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

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

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

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.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

I'm very human.

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.

Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Our opinions are less important than the spirit and temper with which they possess us, and even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in a broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

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

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

There's a power in empathy.

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are going through in life, I try to understand their story.