"All the world's major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether."

-- Dalai Lama

#Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.”
“My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.”

Source : "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.
“Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.”
“Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.”

Source : "'Getting things right'". www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2008.
“What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“At the end of the day it doesn't matter which group is most oppressed or whether they are identically oppressed, what matters is that no group be oppressed.”
“You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work of art - a rock, a tree, a bird, a fish, a sunrise made of light and air.”
“Truth is not always a pleasant thing.”

Source : "Fictional character: General "Buck" Turgidson". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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