"Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness."

-- Dalai Lama

#Peace Quotes #Children Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.”
“I'm more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.”
“The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we are in union with Christ and are called to live in our baptismal identity in his resurrection. This essential theme of Easter cannot be communicated in a day. It takes a season.”
“In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.”
“This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.”

Source : Daniel Wallace (1999). “Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions”, Penguin Group USA
“Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.”

Source : Toast to the artists Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo in Madrid, June 25, 1884.
“The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.”
“What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit - taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington - has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do.”

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