"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."

-- John Berger

#Compassion Quotes #Order Quotes #World Quotes

“The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast.”
“I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.”
“Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired.”
“Well, in Colombia everybody's very voluptuous, and you're supposed to be. You don't want to be skinny when all of your cousins are mermaids. You grow up thinking that's how beauty is.”

Source : "Sofia Vergara talks sex and bikinis in Esquire: Who's the sexiest TV actress?", www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2012.
“The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.”

Source : Bart D. Ehrman (2011). “Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are”, p.4, Harper Collins
“My profession?consists of bringing truths nearer to the point where they explode. 396”

Source : 1982 Music and Politics.
“It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.154, Egmont UK
“Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.”

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