Human rights are...the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.
-Radhika Coomaraswamy
Human rights are...the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.
My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go. My heart... not so much.
-Simone Elkeles
How profound is your religious depth can be assessed from the number of
assurances and blessings you still need for your life.
-Deep Trivedi
Action has meaning only in relationship and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
-Vladimir Nabokov
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper pleasure of ritual.
A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
-Jean Cocteau