"God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease."

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Source : "The Inner Life: Why Do We Suffer?" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

Bernie Siegel

#Compassion Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Considering retirement? When that happens, I don't want that to be the story of whatever the season it is. I don't want to have to be talking about it all the time. My plan is when the time is up, it'll be time to hang it up. When that comes, it'll come. But right now, I don't have any clue as to when that'll be. It's been that way the last couple of years. . . . I've often felt if I ever get to a point where I don't want to go recruiting and can't get excited about it, then maybe it's time. That's a pretty good indication that's probably it. And I haven't reached that point at all yet.”
“Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.”
“I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris
“You won't find anyone in the UK who doesn't admire what Germany has become. The bilateral relationship between London and Berlin will become more important in the future, and the UK government wants Germany to grow stronger - for Europe's sake. It is in Britain's national interest that the EU succeeds, and Prime Minster Theresa May knows this.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are”
“I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.”
“In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.”
“If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.”

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