"The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Purpose Quotes #Purpose Of Life Quotes #Goodness Quotes

“Edward Isaac Bickert in never one to blow his own horn - figuratively - he is one of the most modest and unassuming men in Jazz. But literally - he blows up a storm .”
“Create the temperature of your passion!”
“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
“The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try to develop compassion towards my enemy, it may not benefit him directly, he may not even be aware of it. But it will immediately benefit me by calming my mind. On the other hand, if I dwell on how awful everything is, I immediately lose my peace of mind.”
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, I allow all the Catholics to observe freely and with some joy this day in this home.”

Source : "In Tito's Death Marches and Extermination Camps" by Joseph Hecimovic, John Prcela, (p. 163), 1962.
“As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”

Source : Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.84, Broadway Books
“You are so beautiful, he mouthed. But of course she couldnâ€™t see his lips. Guess he was going to have to show her.”

Source : J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2735, Penguin

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