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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
- Ernest Gaines
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
- Vincent van Gogh
Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human ‘brain’ with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human ‘heart’ with compassion.
- Dalai Lama Xiv
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
- Immanuel Kant
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Dalai Lama
Perceiving her son endowed with the characteristics of Vishnu, Devaki prayed: You are the Illuminator of all psycho-physical organisms, the indefinable Reality, which the Vedas declare as the unmanifest cause… When the universe is dissolved by force of Time, the gross elements are ultimately merged in ahankara (their cause)…
- Scriptures
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
- Barbara Kingsolver
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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