"Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better."

-- Dalai Lama

#Helping Quotes #Harm Quotes #Avoiding Quotes

“Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.”
“Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to describe ways of behaving and thinking that are alien, threatening, and obscure to them.”
“Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.”
“Daddy once said, "If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul.”
“Some of you may think that you are not of interest because you don't have access to classified information. You are mistaken.”
“Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.”
“The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.”
“Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock solid, and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work-you said you're going to reach out to these people-how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?”

Source : Jeff Gannon (2007). “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, Iuniverse Inc

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