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“Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.”
“The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves--that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune's cruelest age...”
“Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: "I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.”
“The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan”
“No animals needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.”
“People eat meat and think they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.”
“Once you come to terms with why you don't eat cats, dogs, monkeys, and dolphins, you will begin to understand why I don't eat cows, pigs, chickens, and lambs.”
“So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.”
“Little girls have large maternal instincts, and they take the Feast of Hungry Ghosts very seriously, and they were making their rounds with small lanterns made from candles inside rolled lotus and ...”
“Have compassion for your past. By showing love to the present. Your past was just the portal to now.”
“I have three powers to win the world: my omnipotent love, my omnipresent kindness, and my omniscient compassion.”
“A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?”
“Be the compassionate observer. No labels, just unconditional compassion. Fun times pass, tough times pass. Compassion will be eternal.”
“Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told.”
“Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men.”
“If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live.”
“Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones.”
“Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.”
“Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce avoidance, that characteristic turning away from a difficult and principled position, which you kn...”
“Even suffering when wrapped in love, seems tolerable.”
