"Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and others."

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Source : "Reconnecting with compassion". TED Talks, www.ted.com. November 2010.

Krista Tippett

#Work Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes

“I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.”
“There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.”
“If there was no such thing as barrels I probably wouldn't even surf.”
“There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.”
“Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.”
“Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.”

Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 19)". Interview with Brandon Hobson and Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2013.
“Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.”

Source : "Elementist Going Up". The Scientific Monthly, p. 183, March 1953.
“I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I know that hereafter it will be written; when instead of these few inlets of the senses through which we now secure impressions from without, there shall be a flood of impressions from all sides; and instead of these few tones of our little octave, there shall be an infinite scale of harmonies - for I feel it - I am sure of it. This world of music, whose borders even now I have scarcely entered, is a reality, is immortal.”

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