"Our task is to widen our circle..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature
More by Albert Einstein
“I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.”
“People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.”
“What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.”
More on Compassion
“Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.”
“I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.”
“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”
More on Nature
“Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.”
“Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?”
“We must remember our duty to Nature before it is too late. That duty is constant. It is never completed. It lives on as we breathe. It endures as we eat and sleep, work and rest, as we are born and as we pass away. The duty to Nature will remain long after our own endeavors have brought peace to the Middle East. It will weigh on our shoulders for as long as we wish to dwell on a living and thriving planet, and hand it on to our children and theirs.”