Path Quotes - Page 48

I'm all for the path of least resistance.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.

Finding the right healing path requires all or nothing. Once you place conditions on healing, all you can achieve is conditional healing.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Empathy grows as we learn.

The path to joy leads through despair.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process

Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

When we endure our own tragedies or trials, most of us develop some empathy and compassion for others who are suffering. The trick is to keep that sense of compassion going throughout our daily lives, when we are likely to go on automatic pilot and move back into being judgmental, especially when times are tough.