#compass

I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #friendship #illness #love #solidarity

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you ↗

— Walt Whitman

#civil-war #compassion #comrade #comradeship #death

Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#compassion #happiness #hope #kindness #strength

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#education #knowledge #life-lessons #understanding #education

All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth. ↗

— Zoe Weil

#compassion #education #global-community #humane #mogo

No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#experience #judgement #people #experience

Think of the patience God has had for you and let it resonate to others. If you want a more patient world, let patience be your motto ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#god #inspirational #life #motivational #patience

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#god #love #poverty #presence #spiritual-poverty

Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#embrace #empower #heal #inspirational #life

Don't hate the bullies. Experience tells me that hating them, or being angry with them, will always make it worse. Instead, put your arm around them. Love them. Tell them that they are valuable. Tell them that you expect great things from them. They will stop the bullying. They will stop, because they will start to love themselves. And people who love themselves don’t bully others. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#bully #bullying #compassion #empathy #greatness