"the territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace."

--

Gail Caldwell

#Grief Quotes #Territory Quotes

“I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.”
“The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.”
“Politicians cannot alter trends.”
“Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.”
“You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”

Source : Statement to the press in July 1969. "The Beatles: An Oral History". Book by Alan Lysaght and David Pritchard, p. 285, 1998.
“The best way to do it, is to do it!”
“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.”

Source : Sylvia Boorstein (1995). “It's easier than you think: the Buddhist way to happiness”, HarperOne
“We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North.”

Source : Elizabeth Dole's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 31, 2004.

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