August 2011
“A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama and asking him for a succinct definition on compassion. She prefaced her question by describing how heart-stricken she’d felt when, earlier that day, she’d seen a man in the street beating a mangy stray dog with a stick. ‘Compassion,’ the Dalai Lama told her, ‘is when you feel as sorry for the man as you do for the dog.’”
—Marc Barasch
July 2011
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
—Anaïs Nin
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (via grownupsolutions)