"When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop the secondary wish to find a cup. In a similar way, the main wish of those who have great compassion is to protect all living beings from their suffering, but to fulfill this wish they know they must first attain Buddhahood themselves and so they naturally develop the secondary wish to attain enlightenment."

-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#Compassion Quotes #Tea Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.”

Source : "Invisible Hand, Greased Palm" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2012.
“I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.”
“In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.”
“I think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it's very important to look at the letters that are in my book, because unlike some of the recent published letters, I have both the personal and the political. And their relationship is about ardor. It's about fun. And it's also about politics.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”
“My father told me that if I ever did anything artistic, I was going to look like a hooker. I told him, 'With these huge ***** that I inherited from your mother, I already look like a hooker!'”
“But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.”
“We are all a little bit stronger than we think we are.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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