"The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life."

-- Dalai Lama

#Pride Quotes #Helping Others Quotes #Attachment Quotes

“Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.”

Source : "Approaches to Writing". Book by Paul Horgan, No. 398, 1973.
“People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.”
“Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.358, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.”
“Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.”
“Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (1936). “The Kai Lung Omnibus”
“Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan”
“Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.”

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