"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."

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Source : Letter to Joë Bousquet on April 13, 1942. "Correspondance", published by Editions l'Age d'Homme in Lausanne, p. 18, 1982.

Simone Weil

#Kindness Quotes #Generosity Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“Family, community, and the realm of the private self - your mind, body, and spirit - are all important sources of the inspiration, support, and ideas we all need to lead the lives we want.”
“Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.”
“Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quite a traditionalist.”

Source : "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.
“On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.”
“You don't learn how to say 'hey, I have a problem,' but you also don't learn how to hear it. There's a total breakdown of how females talk to one another. It's very disconcerting for leadership because it means you don't talk to each other; you talk about each other.”
“You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.”
“A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.”
“Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.”

Source : Mikhail Lermontov (2009). “A Hero Of Our Time”, p.64, The Overlook Press

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