Unrelieved Episiotomy Quotes & Sayings

We were good together. Not in retrospect, not out of nostalgia. Not in anticipation. But here and now good. Very good. — Eshkol Nevo

There are conservative people in all colours in America. — Adepero Oduye

I'm helped by a gentle notion from Buddhist psychology, that there are "near enemies" to every great virtue - reactions that come from a place of care in us, and which feel right and good, but which subtly take us down an ineffectual path. Sorrow is a near enemy to compassion and to love. It is borne of sensitivity and feels like empathy. But it can paralyze and turn us back inside with a sense that we can't possibly make a difference. The wise Buddhist anthropologist and teacher Roshi Joan Halifax calls this a "pathological empathy" of our age. In the face of magnitudes of pain in the world that come to us in pictures immediate and raw, many of us care too much and see no evident place for our care to go. But compassion goes about finding the work that can be done. Love can't help but stay present — Krista Tippett

One of the toughest things for leaders to master is kindness. Kindness shares credit and offers enthusiastic praise for others' work. It's a balancing act between being genuinely kind and not looking weak. — Travis Bradberry

What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them. — Louise Rennison

The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design. — Ian Shapiro