Louise Erdrich Quotes

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

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.

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

I enjoy learning about other people. I really didn't understand that until 'Moonlight.'

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

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

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

Sometimes you have to get to the heart of a character through your heart. Your own heart. And it's what makes us similar and what makes us different.

I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.

No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

Those alone are wise who know how to love.

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.