"To understand everything is to forgive everything."

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Source : Romain Rolland (1914). “Jean-Christophe: Journey's End”

Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist Quotes #Forgiving Quotes

“God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.”
“Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.”

Source : "Parental Choice in Public Schools Gains" by Edward B. Fiske, www.nytimes.com. July 11, 1988.
“This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.”
“Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you're the kind of person who's going to have that feeling about a dog you're definitely going to have that about a child.”
“...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never described or passed on.”
“I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.”
“...living more sustainably means living happier, more balanced and potentially more fulfilled lives than most of us 'choose' to live today, whatever Jeremy Clarkson may have to say about that!”

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