"Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others"

-- Matthieu Ricard

#Evil Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Good And Evil Quotes

“To become a master communicator: shut your mouth & listen first.”
“We'll get a chance to go through this [Apple versus Microsoft debate] again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.”
“In some ways, what I need is a wife.”
“Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.”
“I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.”
“Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.”
“An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no limits to his involvement.”
“In Nepal, the phenomenon is reversed. Time is a stick of incense that burns without being consumed. One day can seem like a week; a week, like months. Mornings stretch out and crack their spines with the yogic impassivity of house cats. Afternoons bulge with a succulent ripeness, like fat peaches. There is time enough to do everything - write a letter, eat breakfast, read the paper, visit a shrine or two, listen to the birds, bicycle downtown to change money, buy postcards, shop for Buddhas - and arrive home in time for lunch.”

Source : Jeff Greenwald (2014). “Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal”, p.16, Travelers' Tales

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