"When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge."

-- Milton H. Erickson

#Imperfect Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath youâ€”when thereâ€™s a loss that will alter your life foreverâ€”you can still trust that you will find your way home. This is possible because youâ€™ve touched the timeless love and awareness that are intrinsic to who you are.”
“You can't change the feeling but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two”
“Don’t do to others what you would not like to be done to you, if you were in their place.”
“He who would search for pearls must dive below.”

Source : 'All for Love' (1678) prologue
“If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.”

Source : Alan Loy McGinnis (1985). “Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel”, p.28, Augsburg Books
“The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.”

Source : 1829 TheMisfortunes of Elphin,'TheWar-Song of DinasVawr'.
“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can actually, essentially communicate with the people in ancient Egypt, people in Rome and Greece, people in ancient Britain, people in New York in the 1920s who can communicate to us and change the way we think, and change the things that we believe. I think that books are special. Books are sacred. And I think that when you are selling books, you have to remember that in all the profits and loss, in all of that, you are treading on sacred ground.”
“Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.”

Source : Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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