"May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!"

-- Mahmoud Darwish

#Names Quotes #May Quotes #Mercy Quotes

“I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored his goal was similar to Matt.”
“If I don't take care of myself and be kind to myself, then I can't take care of anyone else. I think when my son was a baby I got used to not getting enough sleep, rushing and skipping meals, and feeling tired a lot of the time.”
“When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.”
“My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.”
“Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.”
“Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.”
“The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.”

Source : "Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life". Book by B. Alan Wallace, 1993.
“Ours is a land rich in resources; stimulating in its glorious beauty; filled with millions of happy homes; blessed with comfort and opportunity. In no nation are the institutions of progress more advanced. In no nation are the fruits of accomplishment more secure. In no nation is the government more worthy of respect. No country is more loved by its people. I have an abiding faith in their capacity, integrity and high purpose. I have no fears for the future of our country. It is bright with hope.”

Source : Hoover, Herbert (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Herbert Hoover, 1929”, p.11, Best Books on

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