Sentence examples for circles of compassion from inspiring English sources
My circles of compassion have been pried open.
Extending your circles of compassion outside your [field of view – that makes society work].
But let us not mock too much: the instincts and habits that make us extend our circles of compassion outward, however irrationally, are the ones that bring us closer to something like a shared natural morality.
At the same time, Snyder also asks us to extend our circles of compassion, making us see that the child dying in the gas chamber was no different from the one being starved to death in the siege of Leningrad, or that the fate of the zek in the Gulag was not very different from that of the Russian prisoner in a German lager.
Canada has its oddballs and its oddities, but it remains a country of expanding circles of compassion, and of the most important kind of good faith we possess: the faith that real lives and actual experiences matter, and that human dignity counts.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
It is time for us to widen our circle of compassion and follow Spain's lead in granting legal rights to apes.
Empathy for Melania is a good principle, but extending that circle of compassion to all caught in similar circumstances is a better one.
Once we have concluded that we live in a world governed by chance and hazard, we can react either by extending our circle of compassion to include people who have been less lucky than we are or by attempting to protect ourselves against the next roll of the dice by enclosing ourselves in a fortress of fear.
She writes that "as a parent who is constantly trying to build on children's natural empathy and expand their circle of compassion to include all living beings, I worry about the message you send to impressionable children by treating insects in such a manner contrary to their natures".
