"The most important part of my mental self-care is knowing who to call for what kinds of help."

“I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie,”

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.”

“Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.”

“We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.”

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

“On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists ... see the unbelievable swiftness with which one evolving species on the Earth has learned to reach into the dirt of some tropical island and fling 747s across the sky ... Seeing a race unaware of its own instantaneousness in time, they can reel off all the species that have come and gone, with emphasis on those that have specialized themselves to death.”

“We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice.”

Source : Sulak Sivaraksa (1992). “Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society”

“In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.”