Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.
Interpretation
Caring for others can help overcome feelings of loneliness and shame.
This quote emphasizes the healing power of empathy and compassion towards others when one is feeling down or embarrassed. Diane Sawyer suggests that by focusing on the needs and feelings of others, we can alleviate our own negative emotions and find hope in connection.
In practice
In a speech about mental health awareness, one could use this quote to highlight the importance of community support.
I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.
The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit and guts and stamina and razor-sharp instincts. They are, thank heaven, here to stay.
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews.
Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.
Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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