"When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life."

-- Jack Kornfield

#Suffering Quotes #Feels Quotes #Sufferings In Life Quotes

“When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.”

Source : "Tony Benn: His views on socialism, Europe, war and writing", www.bbc.co.uk. March 14, 2014.
“Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.”

Source : William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.285
“Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.”
“There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys who move up the ranks writing. I don't know what's healthier or what's the best thing - probably whatever yields the best songs.”
“Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.”

Source : "Illinois Death Row Emptied". www.washingtonpost.com. January 12, 2003.
“Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.”
“And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind”
“A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.”

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