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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
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. -- Richard Eyre
Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people. -- Arlo Guthrie
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By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. -- Nhat Hanh
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light. -- Jeanne DuPrau

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