"Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. â€¦ Why canâ€™t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?"

-- Hanif Kureishi

#People Quotes #Way Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“Worry in the dark can make it even darker.”
“Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and others.”

Source : "Reconnecting with compassion". TED Talks, www.ted.com. November 2010.
“I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech”
“I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.”
“Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us”
“Thereâ€™s no such thing as a painless lesson, they just donâ€™t exist. Sacrifices are necessary; you canâ€™t gain anything without losing something first. Although, if you can endure that pain, and walk away from it youâ€™ll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yea, a heart made fullmetal.”
“Love sustains everything.”
“Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.”

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