"Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me"

-- Alice Walker

#Self Quotes #Twins Quotes #Natural Quotes

“The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.”

Source : Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket
“Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps...”

Source : Stanley Milgram (2017). “Obedience to Authority”, p.11, HarperCollins
“The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.”
“Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die.”
“Perhaps I am better prepared to create a certain amount of integrity in the character because I know so much about the parts of those universes. So perhaps it goes hand in hand, and I don't shy away from it certainly. I think I have a great facility for it, so it seems to work.”
“I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.”
“We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.”
“When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is our own pleasure of seeing someone who hurt us getting it back and then some. Justice, on the other hand, is secure when someone pays a fair penalty for wronging another even if the injured person takes no pleasure in the transaction. Vengeance is personal satisfaction. Justice is moral accounting...Human forgiveness does not do away with human justice.”

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