Paglaya Mula Quotes & Sayings

Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself. — Matthew Fox

I am dust and my story ends here. — Hanif Kureishi

But I'll still say it, as many times as you need to hear it-I'm sorry, Carolina. — Jaci Burton

The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it. — Josh Billings

When they come, they come from above. — Justin Cronin

I now think that was distanced me from Tricia and from the Rape Crisis Center was their use of generalities. I did not want to be one of a group or compared with others. It somehow blindsided my sense that I was going to survive. Tricia prepared me for failure by saying that it would be okay if I failed. She did this by showing me that the odds out there were against me. But what she told me, I didn't want to hear. In the face of dismal statistics regarding arrest, prosecution, and even full recovery for the victim, I saw no choice but to ignore the statistics. I needed what gave me hope, like being assigned a female assistant district attorney, not the news that the number of rape prosecutions in Syracuse for that calendar year had been nil. — Alice Sebold

For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition. — Walter Raleigh

The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy. — Sheldon Whitehouse

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time. — Barbra Streisand

Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of World Government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright shining lie. — Pat Buchanan