"To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family."

-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist Quotes #World Quotes

“The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.”
“No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.”
“My dog doesn't like dogs, and I kind of get where she's coming from; I'm not too keen on people.”
“When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you're accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement.”

Source : Julia Serano (2013). “Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive”, p.20, Seal Press
“So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben - or Al Gore, Paul Krugman, or any other climate-change doomsayer - to put his wealth where his words are. I'll bet $10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes will fall over the next 20 years. Specifically, I'll bet that the average annual number of Americans killed by these violent weather events from 2011 through 2030 will be lower than it was from 1991 through 2010.”

Source : "More Weather Deaths? Wanna Bet?". www.wsj.com. May 28, 2011.
“What I don't understand is how women can pour hot wax on their bodies, let it dry, then rip out every single hair by its root and still be scared of spiders.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.”
“Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.”

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