"True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed."

-- Dalai Lama

#Compassion Quotes #Greed Quotes #Inner Peace Quotes

“Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.”
“Knowledge comes from our senses, extend our senses and we extend our knowledge. Let's stop building apps for mobile phones and start building apps for our bodies.”
“I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely.”
“Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.”
“More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.”

Source : "Why I Want My Daughters — and Son — to Read Lean In" by Nancy Birdsall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2013.
“Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.”
“Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the way. At one point I wanted to illustrate Jack Prelutsky's enchanting poems. Unable to do that, I started devising and improvising my own poems, very raw at first. I immersed myself in verse, writing reams of stuff until it gelled.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Life is too short to dance with ugly men”

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