"If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence."

-- Dalai Lama

#Self Confidence Quotes #Inner Strength Quotes #Calm Quotes

“Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.”
“It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did not know what I was going to be like, but she loved me because she carried me in her womb. And when she gave me birth, she took me in her arms, because her love was not just beginning - she conceived it along with me. A mother loves - and that is why abortion is so abhorrent...”
“I think you're much more approachable when you're on a small screen.”
“Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.”

Source : "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.
“The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.”
“Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn't slept at all.”
“Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.”
“O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.”

Source : Epitaph to Cyrus. "Plutarch: The Age of Alexander". Book by Plutarch, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, p. 326, 1973.

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