"Softening what is rigid in our hearts..."

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Pema Chodron

“I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.”
“If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”

Source : Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)
“We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?”
“In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.”
“And when someone grows up knowing so little of what real love feels like, whether from family, or friends, or the love of a companion, that person starts to believe that they werenâ€™t meant to be loved, that good things will never happen to them. They start to believe that whenever something good does happen, itâ€™s inevitable that something bad will come along to replace it.”
“By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.”
“It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.”
“Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.”

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