"In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you."

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Source : Sharon Salzberg (2013). “Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace”, p.139, Workman Publishing

Sharon Salzberg

#Compassion Quotes #Conflict Quotes #Guides Quotes

“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”
“I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.”
“My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are all different-all first-rate human beings with high standards-whom I completely and unequivocally adore-don't always agree with-but always admire and respect. They all have wit and a sense of humor and, thank God, I have hung on to mine.”
“We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.”
“Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.”
“Know yourself and go in swinging.”
“I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.”
“Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life.”

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