"he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'."

-- Oliver Sacks

#And Love Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Feels Quotes

“Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.”
“I grew up riding horses and on the beach and I never really wore makeup and my mom showed that as an example. She wore makeup, just in a beautiful, effortless way.”
“He may not be in a class all by himself, but it don't take long to call the roll.”
“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.”
“What God sends is welcome.”

Source : John Herschel's diary entry (November 1855), as quoted in Gunther Buttmann "The Shadow of the Telescope: A Biography of John Herschel", 1970.
“The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention.”
“Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies - for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text - as into the world and into history - by her own movement.”
“If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.”

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