"Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much."

-- Marianne Williamson

#Block Quotes #Drama Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“None but the brave can live with the fair.”
“Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?”
“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”

Source : "Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul: A Handbook of Transcultural Proverb and Sayings". Book by Fayek S. Hourani, p. 169, 2012.
“If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps otherwise you wouldn't, and that's the only way I can put it.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I'm beginning to appreciate the value of naps. Naps are wonderful, aren't they? Sometimes now I have to take a nap to get ready for bed.”
“The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.”

Source : Winona LaDuke (2002). “The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings”, p.99, Voyageur Press (MN)
“It is great that even before we become enlightened or generate any lam-rim realizations we are able to offer incredible benefit to others. The person who does this is a very fortunate person and should rejoice very often.”
“About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter.”

Source : "The Catechism of the Catholic Church". Book by Pope Saint Pius V, 1994.

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