"I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Birthday Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Offering Quotes

“Whenever you surrender the most precious areas of your life to GOD, it's like trading in a pile of worthless pebbles for a truckload of priceless jewels.”
“I look at it this way: How much of the day are you awake? You think, "I've gotta get that dry cleaning, I gotta get this going, and this, and this, and this." And all of a sudden it's dinnertime. And then there's a moment of connection with your spouse or your friends. Then you read and go to bed. Wake up and then it's the same all over. You're not awake, you're not living, you're not experiencing. We start early medicating ourselves. We start kids early, on TV and video games and so on.”
“No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.”
“Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.”
“A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.”

Source : "Outside Ethics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2005.
“I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.”
“We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.33, Granta Books
“If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.”

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