Reach Out Quotes - Page 23

• The low-hanging fruit is cynicism and pessimism, and it's there if you want it. You can reach out and you can grab it, you don't even have to make any effort.

  Emilio Estevez

  Effort, Want, Fruit

  "Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. October 19, 2011.

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• I've always been a youth advocate. I mean, that's been my brand, reaching out to young people. All my life, when I've dealt with youth I'd be thinking back to my own experience. Now I look at my kids and think forward.

  Justin Trudeau

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to help them can be stunted or undermined early on, depending on a child's experiences in the home and neighborhood. It becomes too easy to turn our backs on fellow human beings... to have 'compassion fatigue.' Technology, we are learning, is not neutral.

  Sissela Bok

  Children, Communication, Home

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• The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

  Felix Adler

  Spiritual, Religious, Real

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• Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.

  Andy Murray

  Letting Go, Prayer, Sacrifice

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• Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

  Gary Chapman

  Love Is, Trying, Reaching

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• I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.

  Henry Miller

  Effort, Dry, Quiet

  Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn (2007). “Crazy Cock”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Believe, Healing, Bridges

  Douglas Kennedy (2013). “The Douglas Kennedy Collection #2: Temptation, The Woman in the Fifth, and Leaving the World”, p.850, Simon and Schuster

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• Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

  Max Walker

  Thinking, Differences, Making A Difference

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.

  John McLaughlin

  People, Trying, Human Experience

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• My experience of people in dementia is that a lot of their personality, a lot of their knowledge, a lot of their experience is still there but there's not a direction connection that they can just reach out and get it and then bring it back.

  Walter Mosley

  People, Personality, Connections

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

  Kim Novak

  Night, People, Matter

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• Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.

  Rod McKuen

  Air, Ideas, Exception

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• I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize.

  Terrence Howard

  Thinking, Usa, People

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• In a world characterized by loneliness and despair, we can reach out in love to those around us. Or, as St. Francis once said, we can "preach the gospel all the time; if necessary, use words."

  Phil Callaway

  Love, Christian, Loneliness

  Phil Callaway (2009). “Making Life Rich Without Any Money”, p.197, Harvest House Publishers

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• Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are still blessed with heroes like those of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Man will continue his conquest of space. To reach out for new goals and ever-greater achievements, that is the way we shall commemorate our seven Challenger heroes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Hero, Blessed, Character

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• You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

  Al Stewart

  Sadness, Hands, All Alone

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• There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.

  Nicholson Baker

  Book, Night, Hands

  "Ask The Author Live: Nicholson Baker On The Kindle". Q&As, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

  Carl Lewis

  Kids, Track, Want

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• In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.

  Jonathan Larson

  Community, World, Faces

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is easy! Kindness is easy. So I try on my Twitter page to acknowledge everyone that reaches out to me. I try to make my page - I can't control the rest of Twitter - but I try to make my page a safe place for people.

  Yvette Nicole Brown

  Kindness, Love Is, People

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mean, Compassion, Church

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.207, Three Rivers Press

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• Feelings of worth come when a woman follows the example of the Master. Her sense of infinite worth comes from her own Christlike yearning to reach out with love, as He does.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Self Esteem, Feelings, Example

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• I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.

  Ally Condie

  Heart, Hands, Waiting

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