"If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world."

--

Nhat Hanh

#Beauty Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.”

Source : Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.
“Your going to be fine.I promise you."- with my finger I made an X sign on my chest-"cross my heart and hope to die,you have my word.You don't deserve to live like that,and we're going to turn things around.”
“I wanted to be a world champion.”
“A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.”
“People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.”
“Nellie Gomez awoke to a splitting headache. Worse, she was still hungry. "Where's my croissant?" she demanded of the person leaning over her. "Dear child," came a strangely familiar voice. "Don't 'dear child' me!" she snapped. The twenty-two-year-old punk rocker ran black-polished fingernails through black-and-orange-dyed hair, which did nothing to soothe the pounding behind her black-shaded eyes. "Give me my croissant or I'llâ€“" It was then that she suddenly realized she was threatening the venerable Alistair Oh. "Alistair, what are you doing here?”

Source : Gordon Korman, Scholastic Multi-Platform, (2011). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot”, p.52, Scholastic Inc.
“But everything you do in life has a downside.”
“There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.”

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