Compass Quotes (page 16)
![George Eliot quote: "For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before..."](/pic/264010/600x316/quotation-george-eliot-for-pain-must-enter-into-its-glorified-life-of.jpg)
The panes streamed with rain, and the short street he looked down into lay wet and empty, as if swept clear suddenly by a great flood. It was a very trying day, choked in raw fog to begin with, and now drowned in cold rain. The flickering, blurred flames of gas-lamps seemed to be dissolving in a watery atmosphere. And the lofty pretensions of a mankind oppressed by the miserable indignities of the weather appeared as a colossal and hopeless vanity deserving of scorn, wonder, and compassion.
Joseph Conrad
![Jane Austen quote: "Don't keep coughing so, Kitty, for Heaven's sake! Have a..."](/pic/260600/600x316/quotation-jane-austen-dont-keep-coughing-so-kitty-for-heavens-sake.jpg)
As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love.
Norman Maclean
![Socrates quote: "The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without..."](/pic/259456/600x316/quotation-socrates-the-highest-realms-of-thought-are-impossible-to-reach.jpg)
![Richard P. Feynman quote: "The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter..."](/pic/258363/600x316/quotation-richard-p-feynman-the-highest-forms-of-understanding-we-can.jpg)
I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to.
Leonard Peltier