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Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
- Benjamin Lichtenberg
Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human ‘brain’ with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human ‘heart’ with compassion.
- Dalai Lama Xiv
Rain down your wisdom in sacred streams to carry me like an upturned leaf through the currents of this grey day.
- Prayer
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
- Thomas Merton
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
- George Bernard Shaw
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe
With all fears dissolved in the peace of the Self and all desire dedicated to Brahmn, controlling the mind and fixing it on Me (God), sit in meditation with Me as your only goal.
- Srimad Bhagavad Gita
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston S. Churchill
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Gustav Jung
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