#compassion

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#achieve #compassion #hope #imagination #perception

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#einstein #nature #philosophy #beauty

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#compassion #heartwarming #love #pg- #beauty

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#empathy #loneliness #love #love

I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

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The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#compassionate #conservatism #desire #faith #faith-based

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#brings #compassion #moment #ourselves #rise