"I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that."

-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#Compassion Quotes #Mind Quotes #Calm Quotes

“If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.”
“I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I canâ€™t play anything. I donâ€™t know what it is.”
“Don't try to be original; just try to be good.”
“The basic skills of math, English and writing are not enough, ... You must develop a basic system of values to form and guide the use of these skills. The true test will not be what you learned in college, but how you used what you learned.”
“What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.”
“He supposed he knew, rationally, that she wasn't the prettiest woman in the world, but if his eyes saw any imperfections, his heart didn't care.”
“I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.”
“Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.”

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