"Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."

-- Dalai Lama

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“There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice of sheer courage. The latter is difficult, and to everybody becomes impossible at a certain point. The former has therefore always been more popular. Primitive magic has the purpose of securing safety, either by injuring enemies, or by protecting oneself by talismans, spells, or incantations.”
“Knowing he was suffering pained me. Thatâ€™s the way love tangles you up. I couldnâ€™t stop loving him, and couldnâ€™t shut off the feelings of wanting to care for himâ€” but I also didnâ€™t have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me.”

Source : Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.304, Ballantine Books
“Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. In our history, the state has failed to respond to the weak. You could be white, male, Presbyterian and heterosexual besides, but if you get fired or if you get sick tomorrow, you might as well be Black, for all the state will want to hear from you.”
“Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.”
“It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!”

Source : "Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's". www.bbc.co.uk. December 10, 2003.
“And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.”
“As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.”
“But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.”

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