"Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families."

-- Rosalynn Carter

#Kindness Quotes #Community Quotes #Together Quotes

“I'm not criticizing how people experience what they might call spirituality. I am interested in looking critically at something else - at how people use their language to articulate theories about something they call religion, to say, for example, that "in Islam religion and politics necessarily go together," or to insist that "violence has no place in religion," to universalize it.”

Source : "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.eutopiainstitute.org. February 13, 2015.
“The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.”
“I am a black male who grew up in the inner city of Atlanta and no one ever followed me in a mall. I don't recall any doors clicking when I crossed the street. And I never had anyone clutching their handbag when I got on an elevator. I guess having two awesome parents who taught me to be a respectful young man paid dividends.”
“It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.”
“Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had.”

Source : Song: Walking Blues
“In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.”
“There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.”
“A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.”

Source : Bernard Berenson (2013). “Sketch For A Self Portrait”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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