"Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else."

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Source : "How Can We Make The World More Compassionate?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 19, 2014.

Karen Armstrong

#Life Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Pain Quotes

“But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).”
“I think everything contributes to your creativity.”
“Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”
“New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.”
“Mister Straw hat is going to be an enemy of mine but even a bond of enmity is still a bond.-Trafalgar Law”
“There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.”
“I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.”
“It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.”

Source : Jonathan Rosen (2001). “The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds”, p.85, A&C Black

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