Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold - Zelda Fitzgerald http://j.mp/12NJ5E7
May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more - traditional Irish blessing
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants - A. Whitney Brown
If she put her ear to the wall she could hear sounds. The television on. Coughing. Sometimes the lavatory flushing. Someone upstairs scraping a chair. A shouting mathc below. Everyone in their boxes, counting their possessions - Monica Ali, Brick Lane, p24
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant - Henry David Thoreau
Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering - Shinzen Young
Beneath the sober appearance society demands of us, most of us are going a little out of our minds - giving us a cause to hold out a hand to our comparably tortured neighbours - Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety, p180
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel - John Ruskin
A human being is part of the whole, which we calll the 'Universe': a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its astonishing beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation, and the foundation for inner peace - Albert Einstein
Calling for a re-evaluation of what we label fascism, a recent book argued that, by using the word as a synonym for anything that is undesirable, we are blinded to the examples around us of real fascism from both Left and Right wing governments.