"Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility."

-- Desmond Tutu

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Gun Quotes

“I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.”
“Turtles remind us that the way to heaven is through the earth. In Mother Earth is all that we need. She will care for us, protect us, and nurture us, as long as we do the same for her. For that to happen, we must slow down and heighten our sensibilities. We must see the connection to all things. Just as the turtle cannot separate itself from its shell, neither can we separate ourselves from what we do to the Earth.”

Source : Ted Andrews (2010). “Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small”, p.309, Llewellyn Worldwide
“An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.”
“The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very important and aggressive piece, and the beginner should realize this, and utilize his king as much as possible.”
“Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.”
“We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself.”

Source : Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.83, Tharpa Publications US
“You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it - that is ridiculous.”
“The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

You may also like:

Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese Politician
Dalai Lama
Frederik Willem de Klerk
Former State President of South Africa
Mahatma Gandhi
Lawyer
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil rights activist
Nelson Mandela
Former President of South Africa
Steven Biko
Activist
Thabo Mbeki
South African Politician
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
South African Politician