Stephen Levine Quotes
Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.
Stephen Levine
Quotes to Explore
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A sensible human once said, 'If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit'; and again, 'She's the sort of woman who lives for others-you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.'
C. S. Lewis
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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
James Brown
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He wos wery good to me, he wos!
Charles Dickens
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No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.
Isaac Asimov
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The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
Linda Vester
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Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall.
Matthew Arnold
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Compassion is a two way street.
Frank Capra
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Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.
Stephen Levine
