"A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing."

-- Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

#Buddhist Quotes #Heart Quotes #Self Quotes

“He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.”
“It never really occurred to me to believe in God.”
“I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.”
“We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.”
“The people trying to change others can conveniently be termed the angry, while the people trying to change themselves might be called the guilty, although it would be just as descriptive to speak of the controlling and the dependent, or the paranoid and the repressive, or, inelegantly, the screamers and the criers. In some circles, attaching labels to people rates only a little higher than chicken stealing, because ... a label immediately ends attempts to understand the individual.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.109, iUniverse
“As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.”
“Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what the wisdom of humanity,your intellect and your heart tell you: that the meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world.Then life becomes a joy”
“Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.”

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