The heart has its own agenda, which comes from its own manner of aging. Individuals — even those on the political right — seem to turn left. We find charity, sweetening, praise. Endowments prompted by gratitude; donations to relieve the suffering of poverty, ignorance, and pain. A dominant theme of late years is giving back, an appreciation of how far we have come, how much we have been helped. We respond to kindness and join societies to preserve historic shrines, old animals, natural sites.
— James Hillman, The Force of Character