"forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice"

-- Diana Gabaldon

#Forgiveness Quotes #Practice Quotes #Matter Quotes

“People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of the U.S.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.”
“No one smokes because they like the way it tastes. If we did, they'd make cigarette-flavored cookies, candy, ice cream. What is this? Marlboro fudge with nuts? Give me a scoop of that, willya? She's gonna have the Menthol Swirl with the Camel chip.”
“So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.”
“Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.”
“An ounce of heart knowledge is worth more than a ton of head learning.”
“Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.”

Source : B. Alan Wallace, Steven Wilhelm (2016). “Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
“Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.”

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