#own

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#capacity #else #empathy #every #lost

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#fiction #fiction writer #humanity #own #people

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#become #bed #down #duration #life

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#class clown #clown #i #just #kid

I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#american football #amount #athens #because #cup

We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#around #find #heck #ideas #individual

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#accurately #around #find #heck #ideas

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#down #fall #look #never #stairs

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts. ↗

— David Kirk

#christianity #concerns #division #end #god

I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well. ↗

— Tommy Kirk

#carpet #cleaning #done #i #little