"Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open."

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Dalai Lama

#Love Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Heart Quotes

“I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.”
“During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. I had always owned them to be the Word of GOD . . . the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by GOD.”
“A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.”
“I think I felt God's love the deepest when I experienced my deepest loss. Amazing how God does that!”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]”
“We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.”
“Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.”
“Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."”

Source : Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.38, Rowman & Littlefield

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