"Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world."

-- Russell Lynes

#Sympathy Quotes #Real Quotes #Heart Quotes

“I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.”
“Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.”

Source : "199 Days: The Battle for Stalingrad". Book by Edwin Palmer Hoyt, p. 142, 1999.
“Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.”
“Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.”
“Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.”
“I think thatâ€™s the only way you can ever be truly successful in this world. You have to acknowledge that it is from above. And you have to have the confidence that even if you lose it all, things will be okay. You have to be willing to fail, and all the while work your tail off to succeed.”
“If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”
“Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there were these dark places of the earth, were dark things were happening and people should know about them. Call it my moral obligation to go and see them and report them.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com

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