"The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad."

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Source : Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.276, Pan Macmillan

Bella Pollen

#Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mad Quotes

“It has become dramatically clear that the foundation of corporate integrity is personal integrity.”
“The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart; and if anyone persists in doing so, he gets for his trouble only imperfect and confused fragments. Yet they do not arrive all together, but they hold each other by the hand so that they follow one another in a natural order which it is dangerous to change, because they refuse to enter in any other way where they are called. ...”
“People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard.”
“One particular aspect of Siddharthaâ€™s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at armâ€™s length from multiplicity.”

Source : Daniel Tammet (2012). “Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives”, p.122, Hachette UK
“History of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.”
“I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.”

Source : FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Dec 07, 2010
“I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.”
“Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.”

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