"When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply."

-- Jack Kornfield

#Pain Quotes #Grief Quotes #Moving Quotes

“We need both to aspire and accomplish. Without a vision for your life, without a sense of purpose, you will begin to die a slow death.”
“Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.”
“Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.”
“Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign”

Source : Speech in House of Commons, 17 May 1628
“I sometimes think, would I drink the milk from the breast of a woman I don't know? No. So I think, why would I drink it from a cow?”
“We must remember when we speak of the "negativism" of the toddler that this is also the child who is intoxicated with the discoveries of the second year, a joyful child who is firmly bound to his parents and his new-found world through ties of love. The so-called negativism is one of the aspects of this development, but under ordinary circumstances it does not become anarchy. It's a kind of declaration of independence, but there is no intention to unseat the government.”
“China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.”

Source : Source: www.china.org.cn
“Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 20, 2014

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