"Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism."

-- Karen Armstrong

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“When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.”

Source : Interview with Henry April, www.aprilhenrymysteries.com. 1999.
“Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.”
“Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist and extreme. Bombs get thrown only when people cannot honestly talk together.”

Source : "Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza". Interview with Kathleen Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com.
“Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.”

Source : Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster
“I've practiced meditation most of my life. It's better than lying around doing nothing.”
“In the U.S. more than any other place, the banking system is insane. Millions of Americans lost their houses. Because of what? Because of the banking system. This American banking system is also coming to Europe. We can say today that the banks and high financiers run the world.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.”
“Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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