"According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life."

“More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.”

“I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.”

“This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.”

“This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God. It is far more radical than that. It means that God is like Jesus.”

“There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.”

Source : Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.480, Vintage

“The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.”

Source : Junius (1829). “The posthumous works of Junius: To which is prefixed, an inquiry respecting the author: also, a Sketch of the life of John Horne Tooke”, p.337

“Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.”

“Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.”

Source : "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.