"It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult."

-- Colman McCarthy

#Children Quotes #Peaceful Quotes #Adults Quotes

“Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.”
“You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.”
“If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.”
“A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that’s left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime.”
“Mike Walker is the Hemingway of gossip.”
“If the money's right, I'll do a film.”
“...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet.”

Source : Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.30, Pan Macmillan
“Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret the First Amendment as a prohibition against religious activity on public property.”

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