"Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear."

-- Joan Halifax

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“What should I do? The person I really like...I told him not to play with bad people. But he won't listen. Really, what should I do?”
“And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it.”
“There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale to write a great novel. If I had lived the lives of all the characters of the songs I've written, that would truly be an extraordinary story.”

Source : 2001 In the Daily Telegraph, 20 Oct.
“I think you just have to turn it around and say we are at this absolute historical moment. No generation has ever been as powerful as us. We have the future of our species in our hands. We could be the generation that people look back on and say, 'They bloody did it!', not 'They didn't bother.'”
“An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.”
“When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.”
“Its important for women not to find their confidence in a man. I think you really have to know who you are before you can truly fall in love and give your all, and I don't think a man can define you. You have to own that.”
“The issues facing working women and their families are closest to my heart. I decided to focus intently on the challenges military wives face because they juggle the same pressures as their nonmilitary peers, all while coping as single parents while their loved ones are overseas. I wanted to help make their voices heard.”

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