#compass

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#gentler #gotten #had #i #kindness

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. ↗

— Haile Selassie

#easier #much #never #show #wicked

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#compassionate #i #i think #imagine #life

She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his Greenwich Standard ... ↗

— Dan Simmons

#compass #love #meaning #beauty

I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls. ↗

— Connie Stevens

#bright #compassionate #i #mom #raised

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss. ↗

— James Belushi

#because #bomb #car #compassion #day

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay! ↗

— Ada Cambridge

#anchor #beacon #chart #compass #far

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#feelings #heart #love #wealth #life

War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country? ↗

— Mike Norton

#christian #citizen #communism #compassion #country

Precisely because we are so inclined to think in terms of individual greatness and personal heroism, it is important for us to reflect carefully on the fact that the compassionate life is a community life. (p. 48) ↗

— Henri J. M. Nouwen Donald P. McNeill Douglas A. Morrison

#compassion #life