Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIYale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
AL FRANKEN -
I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ -
Love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you
LADY GAGA -
People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
YOKO ONO -
You are so much more resilient than allowing people to suppress your truest expression of self.
ISABEL ROCIO -
Regret is just perfectionism plus time.
B. J. NOVAK -
Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would call it blasphemy and want to take my life!
SAM SMITH -
When I speak to kids I tell them, ‘Hey, you think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they’re going to get smarter as you get older.’
CHARLES BARKLEY -
You’re not asking for too much you’re asking the wrong person.
JESSICA COLLINS -
Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad’s tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots. I fell in love with you.
KOBE BRYANT -
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR -
The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.
ACHIM STEINER -
Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
BILL MOYERS -
We are not alone and we all have ample creativity within us if we just trust it.
AGAPI STASSINOPOULOS -
I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn’t matter if you’re an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.
DARREN ARONOFSKY