#compass

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny. ↗

— Catherine Booth

#destiny #earth #encompass #ends #exalted

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#came #compassion #fallow #fields #had

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#capacity #compassion #else #fatal #feeling

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners. ↗

— Colley Cibber

#compass #good #good manners #manners #screw

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#because #believed #compassion #decide #equality

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference. ↗

— Michael Crawford

#care #compassion #did #difference #english

It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University had attenuated the professional detachment that allows members of the healing arts to confront the ill without being overwhelmed by compassion and sorrow. He was surprised at that, how tenderhearted he seemed to have become, how thin-skinned. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#healing #art

Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #love #psychology #art

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#helping-others #inspirational #personal-responsibility #change

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. ↗

— Louis Gerstner

#compassion #dreams #human #love #machine