"I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from."

-- Robert Winston

#Country Quotes #Korea Quotes #People Quotes

“It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.”

Source : "To Reward Efficiency, Let’s Reward Efficiency" by Sophia Bush, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2013.
“In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.”
“That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.”
“In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.”
“I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.”
“Before you touch anybody you have to make sure that you are as pure as possible. If you don't purify yourself of all the inner duality, negativity can prevail through the flow of the psyche.”
“I'd like to be a weak, boring housewife. Because then it would involve more acting. It would be challenging to do something like that.”
“Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.”

Source : Sean Stephenson (2009). “Get Off Your "But": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself”, p.19, John Wiley and Sons

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