"We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior."

-- Graydon Carter

#Elephants Quotes #Self Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“The good man is the friend of all living things.”
“Im always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, Im always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. Its like my job is my vacation.”
“Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves.”
“The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.”

Source : Mark Epstein (2013). “The Trauma of Everyday Life”, p.59, Penguin
“I used to compete with my brother to see who could get the most Halloween candy, I remember doing that.”

Source : "PBC fighters share spooktacular Halloween memories". PBC interview, www.premierboxingchampions.com. October 30, 2015.
“Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.”
“I'm not a woman that's an athlete! I'm an athlete!”
“You can't make people stop loving each other just because a law says it's wrong.”

Source : Liz Kessler (2016). “Emily Windsnap: Six Swishy Tails of Land and Sea”, p.140, Candlewick Press

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