"And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow."

-- John Dryden

#Blow Quotes #Hands Quotes #Dying Quotes

“My decision not to eat animals anymore was paramount to my growth as a spiritual person. It made me aware of greed and made me more sensitive to cruelty. It made me feel like I was contributing to making the world better and that I was connected to everything around me. I felt like I was part of the whole by respecting every living thing rather than using it and destroying it by living unconsciously. Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.”

Source : Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.246, Simon and Schuster
“After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little.”
“What I said was: We want everybody to learn English because we don't want - I didn't use the word 'Spanish.'”
“Today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly, live.”
“I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other." He's right. We did. The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.”
“Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.”
“We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.”
“When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.”

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