"We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing."

-- Ira Glass

#Empathy Quotes #Joy Quotes #World Quotes

“Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.”
“We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.”

Source : Lawrence Allen Fowler, Thomas Troward (1995). “Theory of Creative Thought: Based on the Writings of Thomas Troward”
“I say openly that I am an anti-war person, with the point being, show me some reason not to be against this war. You have to be sort of asleep at the switch not to be critical of it. And the parallel between one quagmire we went through in Vietnam and the one we're in now is clear for everybody to see.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
“Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.”

Source : "Scourge and poet" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2003.
“Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the collector of mishap, the victim of misfortune. He suffers from cold and wet and lack of sleep. He is punished more often than rewarded. Yet he continues. Why? Because one great day-- and great days do come, days when the ducks are willing and the gun swings true-- repays him many fold for all the others.”
“I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.”
“I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.”

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