"Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives."

-- Dalai Lama

#Compassion Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Grants Quotes

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
“When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then to miss them is only a new flavor, a salt sharpness in experience. It is when the beloved is unhappy or maimed or troubled that one misses with pain.”

Source : Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”
“I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.”
“Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.”
“At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.”
“Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come.”
“I went to see "The Piano" with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.”

Source : "Cherry Jones, at the Peak of Her Powers". Interview with Alex Witchel, www.nytimes.com. September 20, 2013.
“The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law.”

Source : Bernard Lewis (1995). “The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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