"I learned that Congress is a place with more heart than courage; there are more good souls in Washington than brave ones. I learned that the whole is not always the sum of its parts: that what you put in doesnt always match what you get out."

-- Joaquin Castro

#Heart Quotes #Brave Quotes #Soul Quotes

“It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger.”
“The NGOs in Israel should devote more time to monitoring religious anti-Israel groups, chief among them the so-called "Christian Palestinianists."”
“We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life ...”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.99, Open Road Media
“A ward, and still in bonds, one day I stole abroad; It was high spring, and all the way Primrosed and hung with shade; Yet was it frost within, And surly winds Blasted my infant buds, and sin Like clouds eclipsed my mind.”

Source : Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA
“A single tree doesn't make a forest.”

Source : Chris Bradford (2010). “The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4): The Ring of Earth”, p.144, Penguin UK
“To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.”
“Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”
“This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.”

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