"With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more suffering and confusion."

-- Noah Levine

#Pain Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Confusion Quotes

“Revolutions are not made with rosewater.”
“I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection.”
“Its hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it.”

Source : Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.115, Penguin
“Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off one's glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don't see has become increasingly pronounced.”
“Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I remember reading these articles when I was younger, and I just felt like, well, in order to look like that, you have to have some secret, magical unicorn blood that makes carbs disappear as they go into your body. I prefer the truth.”
“An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.”

Source : "Winner shuns 'toilet-cleaner OBE'", news.bbc.co.uk. May 28, 2006.
“It was a sh*t sandwich.”

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