"A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality."

-- Anthony de Mello

#Reality Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Envelopes Quotes

“A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.”

Source : "Lesser Evils" by Michael Ignatieff, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 2004.
“Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.”

Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”
“A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.”
“Cut that in Three, which Nature hath made One , Then strengthen hyt, even by it self alone, Wherewith then Cutte the poudred Sonne in twayne, By length of tyme, and heale the woonde againe. The self same Sunne twys yet more, ye must wounde, Still with new Knives, of the same kinde, and grounde; Our Monas trewe thus use by natures Law, Both binde and lewse, only with rype and rawe, And ay thanke God who only is our Guyde, All is ynugh, no more then at this Tyde.”
“The Lord never asks the impossible. Often the difficult, but never the impossible.”
“To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.”
“In general, I think there are some things that require time before you can talk about them. Some stuff that happened over the summer, for instance - the Philando Castile shooting, Alton Sterling, the police officers in Dallas - there was no room for jokes. But there are, of course, the policies that have given us those events. Now, there's a lot of room for jokes there. When you're looking at something difficult to talk about, there's always a sideways way in that feels a little less personal to people. That's where the joke lives.”
“I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.”

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