Zach Anner Quotes

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

My problems are so miniscule compared to what's going on in the world. In that sense, I feel liberated.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.

If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I'm not always right and people don't always listen.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

You have a mind. And you have other people. Start with those, and change the world.

I don't think anyone, no matter what, can find perfect happiness until they understand exactly who they are and how every little thing they do can affect the world around them. I think perfect happiness would be a world where everyone is constantly striving to understand everyone else.

I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

I would like government to do all it can to mitigate; then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

When you're in the world I'm in, sometimes you have to remember that when you see your friends, you need to ask them what they've been doing, and you need to grow up and learn your life isn't necessarily more interesting than other people's.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

If you're the person whose problems were solved when you were born, your job is to try and help the people who aren't in that situation. It's very easy to say you're tired of political discussion when all of your problems are solved. I keep trying to think of it that way.