#compass

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#achieve #compassion #hope #imagination #perception

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for? ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#answer #ask #encompass #enough #everything

I can't stomach the thought that we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less viable, less good, less competitive, less compassionate than the one we got. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#competitive #country #down #generation #good

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#justice #mercy #death

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

#compassion #death #empathy #mourning #objectivity

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#become #compassion #judgment #mother #slowly

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion. ↗

— Julian Bond

#compassion #iraq #much #terrorism #war

The dew of compassion is a tear. ↗

— Lord Byron

#dew #tear

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. ↗

— Joseph Cook

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