"A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love."

-- Eknath Easwaran

#Grateful Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Hatred Quotes

“With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.”
“If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.”
“I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.”
“I loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities arose. But I felt like time was running out for me if I wanted to do it.”
“I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance. I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry. I have a bias that leads me to believe in the essential goodness of my fellow man, which leads me to believe that no problem of human relations is ever insoluble.”

Source : Ralph J. Bunche “Fighter for Peace”
“We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.”

Source : Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.47, The Mountaineers Books
“As you get older, stuff starts to wear down. I can't play four basketball games a week anymore. It takes me three days to recover from one. I'm a little older, a little scrappier. So now I do yoga instead. And whatever else happens in the day, I'm set up in the best way possible. I feel great. I'm so flexible.”
“My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.”

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