"In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective."

-- Dalai Lama

#Caring Quotes #Long Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.”

Source : Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.3148, Delphi Classics
“The novel remains a very special form for me.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.”

Source : LEON URIS (1961). “MILA 18”
“My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.”
“At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person's skin.”
“A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.”
“I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared”

Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence of God. That is why I have told you so often, and hammered away at it, that the Christian vocation consists in making heroic verse out of the prose of each day. Heaven and earth seem to merge, my children, on the horizon. But where they really meet is in your hearts, when you sanctify your everyday lives...”

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