Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.
Interpretation
Caring for others can help overcome feelings of loneliness and shame.
This quote emphasizes the healing power of empathy and compassion towards others when one is feeling down or embarrassed. Diane Sawyer suggests that by focusing on the needs and feelings of others, we can alleviate our own negative emotions and find hope in connection.
In practice
In a speech about mental health awareness, one could use this quote to highlight the importance of community support.
I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.
The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit and guts and stamina and razor-sharp instincts. They are, thank heaven, here to stay.
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.
Of two evils we must always choose the least.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life.
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