Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERMore Bob Jones, Sr. Quotes
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You can cage the songbird, but you can’t make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you’ll have to clip her wings.
ELTON JOHN -
We weren’t the kind of family that talked about our problems. We were a close family, in a kind of faraway way.
JOHN DALY -
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
WILL ROGERS -
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
ALAN LIGHTMAN -
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
I’ve learned, That I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the strength to help him in some other way.
ANDY ROONEY -
The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I’m writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.
AARON SORKIN -
You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.
PAULO COELHO -
The best anti-aging product is a great, natural-looking hair color, especially when youre graying.
BOBBI BROWN -
Dare to be wrong and to dream.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER -
I think of my life as a series of moments and I’ve found that the great moments often don’t have too much to them.
BILLY CONNOLLY -
Love is individual to each person and I don’t think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn’t going to be the same for everybody.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL -
Just remember: I love you, and love yourselves. ’cause, little monsters, you were born that way baby.
LADY GAGA -
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
THOMAS MORE -
I don’t know if I’m a heroine; I’m just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups.
BONNIE RAITT