Compassion Quote by Leah Hager Cohen Download Open image ““We are at the mercy of our own narrative impulses.”” — Leah Hager Cohen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compassion Storytelling
“A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we have to inspire and encourage ourselves, through our personal narrative. And we start with what we know.” — Deborah L. Parker Copy Share Image
“We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
“We are not only the tellers of our stories, we are the stories themselves.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“we are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.” — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.” — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“orient your entire brand toward storytelling by defining and defending a powerful moral of your story in every communication.” — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
“It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Is there a wrong way to say "I don't know"? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b) in the… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“Wally gives gifts all the time, at the drop of a hat, little, odd ones. The gift not so much in the item itself… — Leah hager Cohen Copy Share Image
Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds. — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“The words came fast and slow, because the act of writing plunged me so wantonly down slippery avenues of thought that frequently I found… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“Like storytelling, that incessant loving rush of explaining and repositioning and telling again, all for the sake of finding something shared, something mutually recognized… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“That our intuition could lead us astray is troubling in direct proportion to the degree of trust we place in it. The solution would… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice. She possessed a keen sense of the fundamental absurdity… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“I fight with love and kindness as my weapons and compassion as my defense.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“If you refuse to use physical force, then you will be at the mercy of your oppressor!” — Segun Magbagbeola Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Helpers in every corner, helpers in every hood. That's how we'll make the move, to reform from rude.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
May the gods have mercy on whoever pisses them off, because Zarek and Jericho will have none for them. (Madoc) You’d better be glad… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
