"Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion."

-- David Simon

#Life Is Too Short Quotes #Heart Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.301, Vintage
“In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.”
“There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.”
“I'd like to have a dog with me.”
“A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.”

Source : Michael S. Harper (1970). “Dear John, Dear Coltrane: Poems”, p.5, University of Illinois Press
“Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month.”

Source : "The Mythical Man-Month". Book by Fred Brooks, п. 17, 1995.
“There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late. Even the most beautiful weather will not allay the gardener's notion (well-founded actually) that he is somehow too late, too soon, or that he has too much stuff going on or not enough. For the garden is the stage on which the gardener exults and agonizes out every crest and chasm of the heart.”
“Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they're special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into your life.”

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