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Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

Gabrielle Roy

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

Walter Lippmann

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

William Macneile Dixon

We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

Fred Rogers

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

Fred Rogers

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

Friedrich Schiller

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

Fritz Lang

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

Mary Martin

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people’s.

Mason Cooley

You want to reach people on a real level and have a fan base that understands you.

Matt Tong

The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.

Lisi Harrison

In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Michel de Montaigne

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

Gary Shteyngart

At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.

Gautama Buddha

With most of the people you just communicate you don’t have to talk.

George Harrison

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

George Lakoff

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

George MacDonald

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Walt Whitman

Your capacity to love is your capacity to experience the I of another.

Walter Starcke

Don’t sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don’t understand; get to know them

Wendelin Van Draanen

The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man’s intentions right into his eyes.

Hiram Powers

That Yes, I know what you mean-that is the technical definition of Best Friend Forever.

J. J. Johnson

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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