"As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider."

-- Pema Chodron

#Compassion Quotes #Circles Quotes #Compassion For Others Quotes

“Any change of my style, the way I've played for 10 years, will not be a drastic one. Yes, I've always given as good as I've got; as a forward you have to do that because, if you don't look after yourself, you might find yourself being thrown in a hole and buried.”
“I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions, and which never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he honestly seeks the Truth.”
“For the record, I love my sister. But she is dead wrong on the marriage issue.”

Source : "Top 10 PR Blunders of 2013" by Rich Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.
“I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.”
“There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.”
“I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!”

Source : Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.25, Rodale
“The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.”

Source : Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.22, Penguin
“Attention is the currency of leadership.”

Source : Ronald A. HEIFETZ, Ronald A Heifetz (2009). “Leadership Without Easy Answers”, p.113, Harvard University Press

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