What’s hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn’t feel like enough. But it is.
Interpretation
Even small efforts can lead to significant change in someone's life, despite feelings of inadequacy.
This quote by America Ferrera reflects the struggle of feeling overwhelmed by the vastness of problems in the world, especially when one is far removed from the situation. It emphasizes that even though one might feel that their contribution is insignificant, changing just one life is meaningful and important, highlighting the impact of individual actions in the grand scheme of life.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a charity event to inspire volunteers.
How much time have I wasted on diets and what I look like? People are saying 'We love you and love what you do' and you're sitting there thinking 'I'm not skinny enough or pretty enough.' It's taken a lot of work to get over that.
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If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
Every harlot was a virgin once.
I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!
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