"When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present."

-- Dalai Lama

#Life Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“They can only kill us once.”
“The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.”
“I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.”
“Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.”

Source : Alan Bennett (2008). “Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy”, p.53, Faber & Faber
“Mothers Who Know Honor God They bring daughters in clean and ironed dresses with hair brushed to perfection; their sons wear white shirts and ties and have missionary haircuts. These mothers know they are going to sacrament meeting, where covenants are renewed. These mothers have made and honor temple covenants. They know that if they are not pointing their children to the temple, they are not pointing them toward desired eternal goals. These mothers have influence and power.”
“Out of what... a thousand?”
“O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.”

Source : Gaspara Stampa, “Rime 28”
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

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