"If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life."

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Karen Armstrong

#Compassion Quotes #Reality Quotes #Peaceful Quotes

“The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.”
“[Buckminster Fuller ] never got past his freshman year [in Harvard], because the guy was an insane womanizer and he did parties every night, never studied anything, never took a note, didn't care about anything and just had a blast. So they said, "We gotta let you go. You get zeros all the time." Today it wouldn't even matter, because they don't care if you can read.”
“How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.”

Source : Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
“My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.”
“Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they've thought about and explored in their imaginations... But one thing I really like about Superman fans is that they're so open-minded and excited and honest. There's something beautiful about their enjoyment of it - something very Superman-like.”

Source : "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.
“A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.”
“Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!”
“You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.”

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