Quotes
I wonder what would happen
if I treated everyone like I was in love with them,
whether I like them or not and whether they respond or not
and no matter what they say or do to me
and even if I see things in them which are
ugly twisted petty cruel vain deceitful indifferent,
just accept all that
and turn my attention to some small weak tender hidden part
and keep my eyes on that
until it shines like a beam of light
like a bonfire I can warm my hands by
and trust it to burn away all the waste
which is not never was my business to meddle with. — Derek Tasker
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than
to anything on which it is poured. — Mark Twain
Self pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world — Helen Keller (Deaf and blind author, activist and lecturer)
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. — Erica Jong
What would it be like if you didn't measure the success of your life just by what you get and don't get, but gave equal or greater priority to how aligned you are with your deepest values? — Phillip Moffitt
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate...Returning violence for violence multiples violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow — Chinese Proverb
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
to live
so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came
to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.
— Dawna Markova
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense — Rumi
Our experience of ourselves as something separate from the rest is a kind of optical illusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening the circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
— Albert Einstein
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