"Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created."

-- Joan Halifax

#Action Quotes #Compassionate Quotes #Openness Quotes

“My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life”
“What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.”
“Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. â€œBiological evolution isâ€¦ change in the properties of populations of organisms (you and me) that [happen during] the lifetime of a single individual. The changes in populations that are considered evolutionary are those that are inheritable via the genetic material from one generation to the next”
“My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.”
“We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our original spiritual and moral substance, which grew out of the same essential experience of humanity. I believe that this is the only way to achieve a genuine renewal of our sense of responsibility for ourselves and for the world. And at the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper understanding among cultures that will enable them to work together in a truly ecumenical way to create a new order for the world.”
“A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE ENGINEERS AND THE PRICE SYSTEM: From the Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution & The Higher Learning in America”, p.12, e-artnow
“Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn't finished having children yet.”
“It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.”

Source : Richard Whately (1854). “Essays (second Series) on Some of the Difficulties in the Writings of the Apostle Paul: And in Other Parts of the New Testament”, p.18

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