"Empathy isnâ€™t just something that happens to us â€” a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain â€” itâ€™s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves."

-- Leslie Jamison

#Choices Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Brain Quotes

“The guitar, by its very nature, the nature of its sound, by the soft nuance of its powerful and ancient voice, by the magic of the tone, goes directly to the part of oneself where love is felt. When I hear the sound of the guitar, it goes to some part inside of me that opens the door that holds feelings of love and everything that is beautiful which lives inside of me.”
“There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.”
“Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.”
“Every man praises his own wares.”
“Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour.”
“Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness.”
“Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.”
“There's all this talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well, you know where he is now? Visiting Mexico, which I think means that he is definitely going to run for governor. Arnold is smart. He's in Mexico campaigning with the very people who'll be living here by election time.”

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