"To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine."

-- Jack Kornfield

#Betrayal Quotes #Heart Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.”
“I'm more interested in producing than acting.”
“The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.”

Source : Roland Allen (2012). “The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church and the Causes Which Hinder it”, p.96, The Lutterworth Press
“Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyoneâ€”in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.”

Source : "The Artist and Society” by William H. Gass, medium.com. 1968.
“The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.”
“Passion is the model of all my actions.”
“I'm sorry no one saved you.”
“Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.”

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