"I think and think and think, Iâ€˜ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Happiness Quotes #Positivity Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to.”

Source : Margo Lanagan (2009). “Tender Morsels”, p.400, Random House
“I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself. Then I realized that they made it only look easy. Even the Berditchever Rebbe, revered as a man who could strike a rock and bring forth a stream, was continually honing his intentions. "Until I remove the thread of hatred from my heart," he said of his daily meditations, "I am, in my own eyes, as if I did not exist."”

Source : Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.114, ReadHowYouWant.com
“There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.”
“I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. Â I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.”
“When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.”
“This is my social face,â€ he said lightly. â€œDonâ€™t confuse it with the animal beneath.”
“We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.”
“Their throats were bare for God.”

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