"If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need."

-- Dalai Lama

#Giving Quotes #Joy Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.”
“He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.”
“Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.”
“It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.”
“The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.”
“Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.”
“Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.”
“The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.”

Source : Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.17, The New Press

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