"Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our ethical vision. If our actions in the world are to stem from an encounter with what is central in life, they must be unclouded by either dogma or prevarication. Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope."

-- Stephen Batchelor

#Empathy Quotes #Risk Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.”

Source : FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Jul 15, 2013
“I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole from you. And I want it to be something that even a coma can't make you forget.”

Source : FaceBook post by Shelly Crane from Feb 08, 2013
“Deep down, everything boils down ("au fond tout se ramÃ¨ne", Fr.) to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and the realization in this world of higher principles, or else do we want to serve selfish, short-sighted (Ã courte vue", Fr.) interests, which, when all is said and done, are also prejudicial (or detrimental, or harmful) to those very same that pursue them?”
“Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.”
“I don't want a gang of shouting, arguing, law-breaking photographers to camp out everywhere we are, all day every day, to continue traumatizing my kids,”
“Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.”

Source : John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.118, Courier Corporation
“The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.”
“I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.”

Source : Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.171, Open Road Media

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