Joan Halifax Quotes
If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought the fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.
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Death, disease, famine
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They're not injured, but they are terrified, everything is broken in the hospice.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.
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If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?
