Quotes

Published January 19, 2013

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.— Albert Einstein

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. — C. S. Lewis

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.— Carl Sagan

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.— Bill Cosby

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. — Johnny Depp

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.— Albert Schweitzer

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. — Plutarch

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.— Simone Weil 

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