"Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies."

-- Rumi

#Spiritual Quotes #Pain Quotes #Treasure Quotes

“I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.”
“The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.”
“They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”
“There are no shortcuts in evolution.”
“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”

Source : Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“no one talks about money more than people who have too much of it ...”
“I don't think I ever saw Hank with anybody, say, 'Let's go write a song.' One Sunday morning we left Nashville to go to Birmingham to do a matinee and a night, and he said, 'Hand me that tablet up there.' And he wrote down, 'Hey, good lookin', what you got cookin'' and before we got to Birmingham it was finished.”
“Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.”

Source : Theodore Harold White (1965). “The Making of the President: 1964”

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