"Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were."

-- Jules Renard

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“We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.”

Source : Beth Harbison (2011). “Always Something There to Remind Me”, p.28, Macmillan
“To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's present practice is practice in realization, one's initial negotiating of the Way in itself is the whole of original realization. Thus, even while directed to practice, one is told not to anticipate a realization apart from practice, because practice points directly to original realization.”

Source : Masao Abe, William R. LaFleur (1989). “Zen and Western Thought”, p.57, University of Hawaii Press
“If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.”
“All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.”
“Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?”
“Theres nothing wrong with making the best of ones declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that were seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.”
“The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.”
“We can remake the world daily.”

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