"People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make love and compassion fruitful. ... It takes just a second to say 'love'. But to acquire knowledge for the well-being and blessing of humanity requires an eternity."

-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Spiritual Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Blessing Quotes

“The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.”
“You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.”
“You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit.”
“No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.”
“Is individual gender suffering relieved at the price of role conformity and the perpetuation of role stereotypes on a social level? In changing sex, does the transsexual encourage a sexist society whose continued existence depends upon the perpetuation of these roles and stereotypes? These and similar questions are seldom raised in transsexual therapy at present.”

Source : Source: transadvocate.com
“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

Source : Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
“I can't handle my own voice, even hearing it echoing on a cell phone. It's horrible.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.”

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