"We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop."

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Source : Steve Hagen (2011). “Buddhism Plain and Simple”, p.83, Tuttle Publishing

Steve Hagen

#Hurt Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Habit Quotes

“Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of foodâ€¦and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free.”
“Yesterday, President Obama prank-called a Washington radio station, calling himself 'Barry from D.C.' Then, just to mess with him, Obama called Glenn Beck's radio show as 'B. Hussein from Kenya.'”
“Well there's floodin' down in Texas. All of the telephone lines are down. Well, I've been tryin' to call my baby, Lord, and I can't get a single sound.”
“I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as this new thing. It reminds me of how people used to tell me about my great-grandmother and how they used to gather around a radio listening to soap operas.”
“I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.”

Source : Source: www.newyorker.com
“I'd like to form a club just for fathers. Specifically, fathers of daughters. There would be lots of overstuffed leather chairs, wood paneling, dim lights. The works.”

Source : Steve Schirripa (2014). “Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.”
“My interest in acting was overwhelming, but I wasn't thinking, "I'm going to California and I'm going to become a movie star." Things were different then. I lived just for the moment, and whatever happened, happened.”

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