All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.
Unlock Your Potential with Motivational Quotes - page 675
Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.
Laura Huxley
Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.
The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
Jimmy Page
Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified by it, and you have the history of another world and of another race.
Mark Hopkins
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.
Branch Rickey
In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.
Thich Thien-An
The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.
Sheena Iyengar
As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.
David Trimble
I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.
Jeb Bush
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
Theophile Gautier
What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified.
Jeff Cooper
Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.
Sharon Salzberg
It's by your own actions you're able to get more in a mess or out of one. It's your own actions that relieve or bind you.
George Harrison
