"A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Richie Benaud

#Pieces Quotes #Earth Quotes #Building Quotes

“Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.”
“Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.”
“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”
“Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.”
“I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.”
“You have to love what you do because it's really, really hard work to get to top and it's even harder to stay there.”

Source : "Casey Stoney: England defender on Messi, Ronaldo and Arsenal". BBC interview, www.bbc.com. March 8, 2016.
“For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.”
“We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.”

Source : Marvin Olasky (1994). “The Tragedy of American Compassion”, p.232, Regnery Publishing

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