#path

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

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

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

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#american #dialogue #diplomacy #hoped #international

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#begin #enter #failure #ones #only

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#down #garden #life #like #little

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#conclusion #discovers #does #draws #experience

Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#energy #energy independence #gas #gas prices #gasoline