When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Interpretation
Empathy and imagination can significantly expand one's understanding of the world.
This quote by Susan Sarandon emphasizes the transformative power of empathy and imagination. When individuals cultivate these qualities, they not only gain a deeper understanding of others' experiences but also expand their own perspectives and possibilities in life. This growth leads to a richer and more connected existence, where one can appreciate the complexities of the human experience.
In practice
This quote can inspire a discussion in a workshop on emotional intelligence.
At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.
Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you! HELP HER to remove the taboos and the loneliness surrounding this disease; be understanding, show empathy, and don’t accuse her of being sensitive, delicate, or overly dramatic – this is a big opportunity for you guys to show that you care and to be a real man!
Knowledge is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS. Yet millions of children are missing an education. Missing their teachers who have died of the disease. Missing from class as they stay home to care for their dying mothers and fathers. Children are missing your support. United for Children. Unite against AIDS.
If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.
We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.
Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an aesthetic choice.
You can Light Up the Whole World by Giving without any Expectation Back.
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
Dream, rather than let yourself be dreamt
At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that.
It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
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