#pass

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#empathy #selfishness #social-intelligence #intelligence

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#curious #i #i am #only #passionately

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

#fade #his #house #inner #into

Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom. ↗

— Robert G. Allen

#freedom #fulfilling #leads #passion #pursuing

I confess I've never felt like a passenger. ↗

— Roger Waters

#felt #i #like #never #passenger

People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#likely #me #more #pass #people

Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go. ↗

— Benh Zeitlin

#me #movies #once #passport #someone

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#comes #complain #continue #effect #especially

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. ↗

— Henry Adams

#men #passion #regarding #senile #their

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. ↗

— Arthur Chapman

#dwells #envy #fly #like #parts