Juggling Elephants Quotes & Sayings

We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness. — Dalai Lama

Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts. — Ken Page

The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. It was those quiet moments alone when I just hated the person I had become. — Jodie Sweetin

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone. — John Calvin

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science. — Thomas Carlyle

The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it. — Woody Allen

We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion. — Mata Amritanandamayi

What I have to do from here is I have to do the best I can to carry on. — Bobby Allison

I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not; some should not be overburdened in order to spare others. — Vincent De Paul

The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I turned and beheld seven rows of plasma screens, each bearing seven vivid scenes, each flickering, each pulsing with a light revealing distant terrors, conflagrations, sufferings - and all thereby brought so close, and all thereby kept far away. — Scott Cairns