"Water reflects everything it encounters. This is so commonplace that we think water is blue, when in fact it has no color.... But the water, the glorious water everywhere, has taught me that we are more than what we reflect or love. This is the work of compassion: to embrace everything clearly without imposing who we are and without losing who we are."

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Source : Mark Nepo (2000). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have”, p.150, Conari Press

Mark Nepo

#Thinking Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Blue Quotes

“No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.”
“Seeming to do is not doing.”
“I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.”

Source : Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.329, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2009). “The Dragonfly Pool”, p.65, Penguin
“The only time a wife listens to her husband is when heâ€™s asleep.”
“I had a very different vibe then, I was very into minimalism. I was kind of obsessed with Helmut Lang and [Martin] Margiela.”
“Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.”
“Our #â€Ž imagination is ten times more potent than our #â€Ž willpower .”

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