Source: Dragonfly in Amber
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 619.
Variant: You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Source: Women
“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”
The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.”
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: The Power of Myth (book), p.183
Context: Moyers: Unlike heroes such as Prometheus or Jesus, we're not going on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves.
Campbell: But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes, there's no doubt about it. The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.
http://www.kipmckean.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/Revolution_through_Restoration_1_2_3.pdf, Revolution Through Restoration, 1992.
Revolution Through Restoration (1992-2002)
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
