"I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself-in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear."

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Source : Elizabeth Kim (2000). “Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan”

Elizabeth Kim

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“One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.”
“You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others....”

Source : Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.”
“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.”
“I like the fansâ€™ sound at night. Do you? Itâ€™s like somebody big far away goes like: itâ€™sOKitâ€™sOKitâ€™sOKitâ€™sOK, over and over. From very far away.”
“You wouldn't run a marathon the day before you run a marathon, you need to leave some sort of surprise for your body.”

Source : "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, in.askmen.com.
“I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.”
“I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.”

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