"It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence."

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Federico Mayor Zaragoza

#Religious Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Expression Quotes

“Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul.”
“If it annoys you when team members ask about their next promotion or talk about other job opportunities in the industry, you have motivational problems in the making. You need to build a habit of proactively seeking employee interests and suggesting follow-up steps.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.”
“When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.”
“The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.”
“Be of good cheer. The future is as bright as your faith.”
“Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jun 15, 2013
“Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.”

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