Path Quotes - Page 57

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.

May Starclan light your path.

Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.

The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

It is not too late to take another path.

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

If you crossed Matthew Henry's path, you would quickly realize that here was someone taking thankful notice of all God was doing for him, and doing so in an attractively joyful way that was infectious.