"When your fear touches someoneâ€™s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someoneâ€™s pain, it become compassion."

-- Stephen Levine

#Pain Quotes #Grief Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“Being free is a state of mind.”

Source : Song: Believe
“When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were still atrophied by a year in the orphanage. They didn't know that flies on their faces were bad. They didn't know that a strange man feeding them their first scary gulps of solid food wasn't a torturer. Life in the cribs alone must have seemed to them like freedom. That's what I was missing about the biblical doctrine of adoption. Sure it's glorious in the long run. But it sure seems like hell in the short run.”
“The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.”
“I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.”
“I'm Language Gal. I can speak any language presented to me. And I look exactly like Halle Berry.”

Source : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
“For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“If I am told my loving you had to happen because of some Freudian stuff about my childhood, that might be degrading or deflationary, but if I am told it had to happen because you are such a wonderful person that I couldn't possibly resist your charms, or because we are so incredibly compatible, then necessity seems very romantic.”
“We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.”

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