"Christianity and Islam are concerned with the idea of justice, which can turn into political justice, social justice, economical justice, and so on. Buddhism is not so concerned with the idea of rights. There is more talk of responsibility than of demanding rights."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Responsibility Quotes #Buddhism Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.”
“I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.”

Source : Jeremiah Burroughs (2013). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.179, Lulu Press, Inc
“I've always had an involved imagination.”
“Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.”
“If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.”
“I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going.”

Source : "Fifa's president, Sepp Blatter, likens himself to a mountain goat". www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2015.
“I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.”
“Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have kept other vineyards too long; you have trifled about the borders of religion too long. Will you now resolve to look better to your hearts? Will you hate and come out of the crowds of business and clamors of the world and retire yourselves more than you have done? Oh, that this day you would resolve upon it!”

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