"The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society."

-- Vinessa Shaw

#Essentials Quotes #Action Quotes #Compassionate Quotes

“I wanted to be a professional drummer.”
“Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.”
“What happens in Senate fight club stays in Senate fight club.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Among many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, "The cannibals! you will be eaten by cannibals!" At last I replied, "Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honouring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms."”

Source : John Gibson Paton (1907). “John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides: An autobiography edited by his brother. New and complete illustrated edition: 1824-1907”
“our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes.”
“To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School].”
“Unfortunately, it does take pain to wake us up sometimes.”
“Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jack Lewis". "Shadowlands", www.imdb.com. December 25, 1993.

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