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've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.
Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is the key.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever
To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."
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