"The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself."

-- Pema Chodron

#Compassion Quotes #Roots Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.”
“I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and FrÃ©dÃ©ric Tcheng were very helpful.”
“Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.”
“To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.”
“I dare say you believe I'm going to die. I bet you don't believe you're going to die. You know it, but you don't believe it. Imaginatively, I think we find it impossible to believe we don't exist.”
“Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.”
“After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everythingâ€™s changedâ€¦.thereâ€™s a hole. Itâ€™s person-shaped and it follows you everywhereâ€¦. For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. Weâ€™d been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.”
“I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?”

Source : Gary Saul Morson (2011). “The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture”, p.4, Yale University Press

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