#rings

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

— Mason Cooley

#brings #compassion #moment #ourselves #rise

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#character #depression #existence #felt #give

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#author #book #brings #into #much

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. ↗

— Leonardo DaVinci

#day #death #happy #life #sleep

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#everything #extent #important #learned #me

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him. ↗

— Erik H. Erikson

#baby #being #bring #brings #brought

The computer brings out the worst in some people. ↗

— Brian Eno

#computer #out #people #some #some people

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there. ↗

— Brian Eno

#back #bar #broke #cause #chords

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#blending #brings #cycle #every #new

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#church #face #feeling #go #mecca