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Irving Stone

Irving Stone

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Educated At University Of California, Berkeley, University Of Southern California

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Novelist, Biographer, Screenwriter, Writer

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To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

— Irving Stone, The Agony and The Ecstasy

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Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

— Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo

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There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

— Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

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There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

— Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

— Albert Einstein, Einstein on Race and Racism

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.'

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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I don’t know how to explain to someone why they should care about other people.

— Kayla Chadwick, I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People

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It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

— Emily Haines, Interview: Emily Haines

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If you didn’t grow up like I did then you don’t know, and if you don’t know it’s probably better you don’t judge.

— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams

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Start by looking for what is valid in every human being.

— Albert Camus, Notebooks

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Sensitivity isn’t being wimpy. It’s about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.

— Jeff Buckley, A Pure Drop' The Life Of Jeff Buckley

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I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

— Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

— Pema Chodron, Banish Your Inner Critic: Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to Unleash Your Creativity and Do Your Best Work

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Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

— Carl Rogers, What Is Person-Centred Counselling?

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I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention.

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)

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Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.

— Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays

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Now I know I’ve got a heart because it is breaking.

— L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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I don’t think I do understand people very well. I only know whether I like — or dislike — them.

— E. M. Forster, A Passage to India

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You don’t ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It’s all about survival; it’s all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in…

— Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

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So regardless of the station we occupy; we have to try harder; to start with the premise that each of our fellow citizens loves this country just as much as we do; that they value hard work and family like we do; that their children are just as curious and hopeful and worthy of love as our own.

— Barack Obama, Read the full transcript of President Obama's farewell speech

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If you are trying to be more opinionated than you are empathetic, you are not living up to your full potential.

— Brianna Wiest, 25 Things You Need To Realize If You Feel Like You’re Not Living Up To Your Full Potential

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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

— John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Reader: Essays in Honor of Stephen K. George

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A religion which does not inculcate universal compassion is no religion at all. Similarly, a human being without the faculty of compassion is no human at all.

— Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, A Message of Peace

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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

— Anna Funder, All That I Am: A Novel

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It’s all fine to say, ‘Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget’ - and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

— John Steinbeck, Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)

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Reframing love as something I get to create with someone I admire, rather than something that just happens to me without my control or consent, is empowering.

— Mandy Len Catron, A better way to talk about love

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If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

— Abraham Lincoln, One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity

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When one personality meets another for the first time, there is a period of mutual examination on the intuitive level of empathy and identification.

— William S. Burroughs, Junky: The Definitive Text of “Junk”

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When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

— Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

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And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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I’ve always treasured empathy as the particular privilege of the invisible, the observers who are shy precisely because they sense so much—because it is overwhelming to say even a single word when you’re sensitive to every last flicker of nuance in the room.

— Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays

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We’ve heard Japanese users described products as ‘unnatural’, ‘foreign’, and ‘suspicious.’ Pinterest, in Japan since 2013, began refining Japanese type last year after an employee described their homepage as ‘when someone tries to overcome a language barrier by talking louder.

— Eiko Nagase, Seven rules for perfect Japanese typography – AQ writes

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Everybody wants to talk about the politics of my grief but nobody wants to talk about my grief.

— Jejune Being, via Facebook

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Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.

— Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

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Maybe, if we’re gonna remember Bourdain for one thing, it’s that open-hearted curiosity and humility, a willingness to be a perpetual student of the world, committed to using his platform to reveal the complexity and beauty of the human experience, one bite at a time.

— Cooper Fleishman, Everyone Seems to Have a Phenomenal Anthony Bourdain Story

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To be a child of snobs deserves its own taxonomy, treatment and pathway to health. Part of this involves overcoming anger towards one’s carers – and realising that snobs are not evil, merely wounded.

— Alain de Botton, The Children of Snobs

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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

— Charles Darwin, Descent of Man

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Since I was a little kid, I always, like, had too much empathy. I would see pictures in the newspaper of people in an earthquake or a war and just obsess.

— Noa (Britne Oldford), The Path, Season 2: Liminal Twilight

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The reach of my online life can feel infinite, but it isn't. And that inevitably creates an empathy gap. As Bill and Melinda put it in their letter, "There is overwhelming evidence that people care about others who are suffering when they can see that suffering.

— John Green, Will Life Get Better for the Poor?

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The only good thing about Valentine's Day is that gift-giving, while it is economically inefficient, is also kind of an act of empathy, right? You have to imagine what it's like to be someone else, imagine what they would want, and then get it for them.

— John Green, CHUBBY BUNNY...blergh!

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Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t…If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

— Nikki Giovanni, The Mary Sue at NYCC: Don’t Write What You Know, Fight It!

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You did a good job today, you worked so hard.

— Kim Jonghyun, 하루의 끝 (End of a day) (JONGHYUN The Collection "Story Op.1")

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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

— Sai Baba, A quote by Sri Satya Sai Baba

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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice. — Bob Goff

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— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

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How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart?

— Orhan Pamuk, Snow

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That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.

— Deb Caletti, The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.

— James Baldwin, The Doom and Glory of Knowing Who You Are: James Baldwin on the Empathic Rewards of Reading and What It Means to Be an Artist

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