"I think the problems of the world aren't caused by people coming together and saying Â«let's make problemsÂ». They're caused by people coming together and saying Â«let's make solutionsÂ» without having solved the problem of their own suffering."

-- Shinzen Young

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Maybe Iâ€™m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about.”
“Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.”

Source : "When Women Do Well, Everyone Does Better" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.
“I was a heavy drinker, but the alcohol affected my heart rather than my liver. So I stopped. I smoke grass now. I say that to everybody, because marijuana should be legalized. It's ridiculous that it isn't. If at the end of the day I feel like smoking a joint I do it. It changes the perception of what I've been through all day.”
“Always surround yourself with friends that have plenty of light in them. That way, you will always have candles around you when days are dark.”
“For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.”
“The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from the cross are written in sharp-edged terms across some of the most inexpressible tragedies of history: 'They know not what they do'.”
“One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.”
“In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about theological issues that few people care about.”

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