"If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way."

Empathy, Act, Being, Fate, Poverty

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"If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way."

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"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"

Jay Woodman, British Motivational Speaker

Empathy, Perspective, War, Reality

"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day."

Barack Obama, American President

Empathy, God, People, Day, Grace

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Empathy, Humanity, Living

"Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?"

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Empathy, Understanding, Judgment, Life

"If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way."

Anais Nin, American Author

Empathy, Act, Being, Fate, Poverty

"The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Empathy, Pain, Truth, Happiness, Inspirational

"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Empathy, Shoes, Sores, Individuality

"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Empathy, Problem, Indifference, Selfishness

"If you have never walked a mile in someone's shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Empathy, Judgment, Understanding, Compassion

"It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Empathy, Compassion, Understanding, Care

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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Friendship, Friend, Meeting, World

"I am sure you would not understand if I told you my father is delightfully clear and selfish, tender and lying, formal and incurable. He exhausts all the loves given to him. If I did not leave his house at night to warm myself in Rango's burning hands I would die at my task, arid and barren, sapless, while my father monologues about his past, and I yawn yawn yawn..."

Family, Escape, Love, Confusion

"Then I realized the vital necessity of art. Human life, yes, you nurse people, you clean house, you market, but then comes the moment of solace and flight. i sit and write and summon other friends, other forms of life, other experiences, and the voyage and the exploration, the delving into character, the vast expanse of life's possibilities and potentialities, contemplation of future travels, of dazzling friendships, all this then makes the chores and the sacrifices beautiful because they are diverted toward some beautiful aim, they become part of the structure of a work of art."

Creativity, Art, Necessity, Solace, Meaning

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

Love, Death, Blindness, Errors

"One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy."

Destiny, Change, Joy, Growth

"I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again."

Spiritual, Stars, Call, Spirit, Movement

"Of course, you'll defend Jay," says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values. I will never be able to alter that. I want you to think as I do.""But Rango, you couldn't respect someone who surrendered an opinion merely to please you . It would be hypocrisy."

Integrity, Opinion, Respect, Truth, Values

"I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced."

Fear, Darkness, Witches, Christianity

"How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between."

Experience, Life, Intensity, Growth

"We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization."

Gender, Feminine, Poetry, Intellect, Balance