- Favourite Quotes -
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“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart...”
― Pema Chödrön
― Pema Chödrön
cold_fusion said:one of the quotes in an American diary my dad gave me in the 90's - can't remember the author
"to get something done a committee must not constitute of no more than three members, two of whom are absent"
It was said by (Rear Admiral) Robert Copeland (1910-1973) who in peace-time was a lawyer as well.
"to get something done a committee must not constitute of no more than three members, two of whom are absent"
It was said by (Rear Admiral) Robert Copeland (1910-1973) who in peace-time was a lawyer as well.
"There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives -- when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war ... Then it is that the submission of the soul to the Highest is tested and ... life looks out from the scene of human struggle with the awful face of duty"
(The character Daniel Deronda, in George Eliot's last novel (1876), titled "Daniel Deronda" [George Eliot, aka Marian Cross {née Evans} (1819-1880)]
(The character Daniel Deronda, in George Eliot's last novel (1876), titled "Daniel Deronda" [George Eliot, aka Marian Cross {née Evans} (1819-1880)]
