"Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations."

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Pankaj Mishra

#Buddhism Quotes #Preoccupation Quotes #Very Powerful Quotes

“Form and content must never apologize for each other.”
“What do you do with people in same-sex relationships that are committed, loving and Christian? Would you rather bless a sheep and a tree, and not them?”

Source : "John Sentamu and the Church of England's slow retreat on gay marriage" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2013.
“Never let another man put fear in your heart.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 08, 2013
“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”
“The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. 'Malo libertatem periculosam quam quietem servitutem.' Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.”
“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.”
“My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.”
“The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books,”

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