#pat

Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them. ↗

— Patti Digh

#change #patterns #pay-attention #change

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. ↗

— Renata Adler

#bored #boredom #cruel #cruelty #great

What if... all the rules and ways we lay down in our heads, don't even exist at all? What if we only believe that they're there, because we want to think that they're there? All the formalities of morality and the decisions that we see ourselves making in order to be better (or the best)... what if we think we've got it all under control— but we don't? What if the path for you, is one that you would never dare take because you never saw yourself going that way? And then what if you realized that one day— would you take the path for you? Or would you choose to believe in your rules and your reasons? Your moralities and your hopes? What if your own hope, and your own morality— are going the other way? ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#finding-your-way #inspirational-quotes #questioning-the-rules #wisdom-quotes #your-destiny

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#being #creeds #gods #just #kind

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

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order? ↗

— Xun Zi

#conforms #desires #even #good #harm

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#develop #empathy #imagination #opens #powers

Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#aimed #casualties #dealt #election #freedom

Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational. ↗

— David Walker

#educational #first #gun #i #lead

I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand. ↗

— Ulrich Walter

#appear #appearance #being #different #differently