We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor RooseveltA great deal of fear is a result of just โnot knowing.โ We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.
Eleanor RooseveltWhat we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.
Eleanor Roosevelt