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You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world and you will be something.
"I cannot" never accomplished anything. "I will try" has wrought wonders.
- Joel Hawes
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel
- Maya Angelou
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
It Makes A Difference:
A well-known author and poet was working and vacationing on the southern coast of Spain.
One morning very early, he was walking along the beach, the sun was just rising. While enjoying the beauty around him, he glanced down the beach and noticed a lone figure dancing about.
Fascinated by this other figure celebrating the day that was about to dawn, he moved closer.
As he came nearer he realised that the young man was not dancing , but in one graceful movement was picking up objects from the beach and was tossing them out into the sea. As he approached the young man, he saw that the objects were starfish.
"Why in the world are you throwing starfish into the water?" he asked.
"If the starfish are still on the beach when the tide goes out and the sun rises higher in the sky, they will die" replied the young man as he continued tossing them out to the sea.
"That's ridiculous! There are miles of beach and millions of starfish. You can't possibly make a difference."
The young man picked up a starfish, paused thoughtfully and remarked as he tossed it out into the waves "It makes a difference to this one."
- Loren Eisley
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe' - a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and his feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty
- Albert Einstein
Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
Everything is worthy of kindness.
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