"Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!"

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Ajahn Brahm

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“It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.”
“To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.”
“I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.”
“If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.”

Source : William Chillingworth (1820). “The works of William Chillingworth, 1: in three volumes”, p.111
“Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.”
“Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.”

Source : Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.316, Anchor
“Electing Sudan to the U.N. body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a womenâ€™s shelter.”
“Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.”

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