"First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others."

-- Dalai Lama

#Buddhist Quotes #Watches Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.”
“It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say”
“The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.”
“With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.”

Source : "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.
“I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.”
“I'm comfortable and confident about the future.”
“When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.”

Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.”

Source : Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books

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