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Karen Armstrong has 106 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their…
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to…
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great…
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied…
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in…
— Claude Debussy
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I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.
— Claude Debussy
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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
— Patti Smith
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds…
— Eberhard Weber
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After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I…
— Karen Armstrong
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I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s…
— Lance Armstrong
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Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready…
— Franz Kafka
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I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.
— Tim Burton
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the…
— Hamish Bowles
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