Path Quotes - Page 41

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone.

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with a deep need to "make a dent," as social philosopher Erich Fromm put it. My hunch is that one reason depression is a global pandemic is that the dominant mental map denies so many of us expression of these deep needs and capacities.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

Let us resolve to follow the Savior and work with diligence to become the person we were designed to become. Let us listen to and obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit. As we do so, Heavenly Father will reveal to us things we never knew about ourselves. He will illuminate the path ahead and open our eyes to see our unknown and perhaps unimagined talents.

It is better to start over than to continue down a path that you know is wrong for your Soul.

Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

It is for this reason that Jesus left us the parable of the unfaithful servant, inviting us into a sincere fraternity in order that through it we could find the path of rehabilitation.

Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

There is no possibility of failure because you only control your actions and they only influence the probable evolution of your life over stochastic future paths. There is no failure, only feedback.

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

Racism is a visual pathology.

We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice.