"Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward."

-- Marshall B. Rosenberg

#Moving Quotes #Our World Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“I started my career off replacing Rita Moreno in a Broadway show.”
“But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.”

Source : ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”
“A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water.”
“I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time. Americans have been manipulated into a space by those who profit from the arrangements of that system. People feel a conscious disease - a dis-ease or an unease - but I don't think they know what causes it.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
“Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by compassion. That means engaging ourselves in compassion in action.”
“Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to that safety arising from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. That is the faith, the experimental faith, by which we Americans have undertaken to live.”
“The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.”
“Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.”

Source : Henry Kirke White (1829). “The complete works of Henry Kirke White: with an account of his life”, p.413

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