Compassion Quote by Julia Alvarez Download Open image “The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.” — Julia Alvarez ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compassion Elasticity Imagination Reading Writing Writing and reading
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share
“Writing keeps the mind sharp and gives me the opportunity to exercise my imagination to engage the reader,” — Ruth Ford Elward Copy Share Image
“Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading has plowed me open and sown seeds of empathy that have taken root in deep soil. Over the years, reading has caused me to grow from a shallow, self-absorbed youth to one who seeks out the pain of… — Steve Kendall Copy Share
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“So why does our writing matter, again?" they ask. Because of the spirit, I say. Because of the heart. Writing and reading decrease our… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again. Writing is an act of self-affirmation. Each time that we place our thoughts onto paper, we receive a new opportunity to claim our reality. Writing is also an act of explication and deconstruction. Writing empowers us to shape… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle,… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“I fight with love and kindness as my weapons and compassion as my defense.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“If you refuse to use physical force, then you will be at the mercy of your oppressor!” — Segun Magbagbeola Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Helpers in every corner, helpers in every hood. That's how we'll make the move, to reform from rude.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
May the gods have mercy on whoever pisses them off, because Zarek and Jericho will have none for them. (Madoc) You’d better be glad… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
