"When we can really put ourselves in the shoes of the other, when we can reach new depths of empathy, then we can be effective ambassadors of peace."

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Source : James O'Dea (2012). “Cultivating Peace: Becoming a 21st Century Peace Ambassador”, p.67, Red Wheel/Weiser

James O'Dea

#Shoes Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Depth Quotes

“That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.”
“For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. It seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.”
“I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.”

Source : "Carey Mulligan: 'I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for a decade'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.
“A mistake is something that you did thinking it was right but it was wrong. A sin is something that you know is wrong.”
“Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing the work. Then you drop off - you know, 'post-coital man is sad,' as the old saying goes.”
“I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.”
“Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.”
“In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but also the whole creation to its proper purposes, to make straight what is crooked, and to redeem both humanity and the creation from the curse of sin, then herein can be found the possibility for a full and wholesome realization of human artistic activity.”

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