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World Quotes by Pema Chodron
- What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how…
- Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of…
- If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to…
- You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things…
- It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace…
- It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and…
- While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's…
- Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
- If you’re aggressive in your dealings, that’s how you’ll be regarded in the world. You might smile and give generously, but if you frequently explode…
- We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route,…
- Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize…
- We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.
- If we Pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of our…
- When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And…
- All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
- Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
- We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad.…
- 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…
- We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.
- How will we experience the world a month, a year, or five years from now? Will we be even angrier, more grasping and fearful, or…
- 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…
- Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold…
- Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to…
- To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to…
- If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach