"Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race."

-- Doug Marlette

#Compassion Quotes #Race Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.”
“You were never taught how to talk with your face like you speak with words.”
“When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.”
“Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas....”
“Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.”
“If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position”

Source : "Malcolm and the Malcontents" by Sarah Ferguson, www.abc.net.au. November 09, 2009.
“I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more”
“Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.”

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