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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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Personal Development
"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
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Personal Development
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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Personal Development
"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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Personal Development
"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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Personal Development
"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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Personal Development
"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told."
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Personal Development
"One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population."
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"I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother."
Family
"Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery."
Reflection
"We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road."
Woman
"This gives us more time to attend the inner need."
Time
"So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence."
Age
"I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world."
Being
"It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads."
Politics
"If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars."
Attitude
"Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food."
Food
"I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey."
Friendship
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