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.
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.
Don't regret what's happened. _x000D_ If it's in the past, LET IT GO. _x000D_ Don't even remember it!
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.
He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.
Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and stillness of soul. The enemy strives to destroy the peace of the soul, because he knows that when the soul is in turmoil it is more easily led to evil. But you must guard your peace.
If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.