"The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of ... But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities."

-- Shams Tabrizi

#Kindness Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.”

Source : 'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853) l. 201
“A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.”
“You have to have faith that if you want people to like your brand, you have to do likeable things. There has to be some degree of trust that, if you're an enjoyable brand, people will want to spend time with you.”
“What abandoned course is that?”
“A cat is a responsibility after all. And feeding and keeping and caring about a stupid fat cat isn't much, isn't much in the entirety of what counts for being a person and the huge range of what people do,but it is something. It is something and it's something that's warm and that I still have.”

Source : Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.99, Canongate Books
“Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.”
“Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.”
“If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.”

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