"It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive."

-- Pema Chodron

#Inspiring Quotes #Needs Quotes #Sitting Quotes

“Iâ€™m not going to leave you here to bleed my friend dry.â€ â€œIf that had been my intent, theyâ€™d already be dead on the floor.”
“Some of my favorite movies have explored the father-son dynamic, in a very loving way. It can be complicated, but at the end, it's that moment where you're crying because of that core relationship.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.”
“Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.”
“If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it.”
“By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.”
“I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.”
“We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.”

Source : Sen. Robert C. Byrd (2008). “Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader”, p.83, Macmillan

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