"We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival."

-- Joan Halifax

#Compassion Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Survival Quotes

“I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.”
“In economies in which women work, men and women in relationships make about the same amount of money, or women make more. Women are 40 percent of breadwinners in America, and that number's been rising.”
“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”

Source : David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.357, Random House
“Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.”
“Communication is so key.”
“it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!”
“A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.”

Source : "Alexander Payne Talks THE DESCENDANTS and His Next Two Projects NEBRASKA and WILSON". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 17, 2011.
“Perfectionism and optimalism are not distinct ways of being, an either-or choice, but rather they coexist in each person. And while we can move from perfectionism toward optimalism, we never fully leave perfectionism behind and never fully reach optimalism ahead. The optimalism ideal is not a distant shore to be reached but a distant star that guides us and can never be reached. As Carl Rogers pointed out, â€˜The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination”

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