"Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice."

-- BrenÃ© Brown

#Commitment Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Practice Quotes

“You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and dogs.”
“Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.”
“Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.”
“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”
“The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.”
“As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”
“Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.”
“Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never left his room, and made dates and ordered pizza with his computer. The piece de resistance of this story was that he had two roommates, and he was proud of the fact that he only talked to them by computer.”

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