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Other Quotes by Pema Chodron
- We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we…
- That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see red, and the…
- Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the…
- Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
- It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and…
- Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult…
- Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an…
- Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the…
- As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
- If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or racial groups or…
- The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave…
- We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions…
- When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and…
- We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.
- Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.
- Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make a list of…
- It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves…
- Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour