Quotes
Authors
Pema Chodron

"We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings."

-- Pema Chodron

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“Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.”
“All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.”

Source : August Wilson (1988). “Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Play in Two Acts”, Plume
“There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.”
“If someone wants to do drugs ... as long as he or she isn't corrupting minors or driving under the influence or endangering others, shouldn't a person have that right?”
“Too many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions â€” all this effort to change others, when if we really got down to it we could use this energy to change ourselvesâ€¦ We become tired radicals because we use our weakest weapon: the ballot box, where we are always outnumbered, and refuse to use our strongest weapon: spiritual power.”

Source : Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.249, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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“Design has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldy.”

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