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“If you sit for long enough with sadness, fear or anger, or some strange energy or urge you can’t even name, in a place of no hope and no expectation, it eventually breaks apart, its imagined edges and boundaries dissolving into the vastness, and it reveals its deep intelligence, and its benevolent nature. At the core of everything we run away from is everything we long for. And we’ll never know if we run away.”
--Jeff Foster
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
--Henry Miller
“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“No one has ever been angry at another human being - we’re only angry at our story of them.”
--Byron Katie
“Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves.”
--Colin Powell
"If we can't laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone's feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call the lowest common denominator of Butthurt."
--George Takei