"If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now."

-- Chan Khong

#Peace Quotes #Morning Quotes #People Quotes

“For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.”
“I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners.”
“Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality”
“I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.”
“Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.”
“I went to my 30th high school reunion, and I could tell who was gay and who was straight because the gay people were like, 'Sarah, you've been doing so much,' and the straight people were like, 'So, Sarah, what have you been doing?”
“Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.”

Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.100, New York Review of Books
“A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.”

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