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“Your Highlight on page 258 | Location 3995-3997 | Added on Saturday, April 25, 2015 12:39:28 PM Kant argued that that you should always act in the way that you would want everyone to act in the same situation. I would not want to live in a world where every whacked-out moral crusader with a gun would be allowed to shoot people he thought were doing harm to his pet cause—old-growth forests, fetuses, or frogs. The world would be chaos.”
― Anonymous

“In answer to the question “What are dogs thinking?” the grand conclusion was this: they’re thinking about what we’re thinking. The dog-human relationship was not one-sided. With their high degree of social and emotional intelligence, dogs reciprocated our feelings toward them. They truly are First Friend.”
― Gregory Berns, How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain

“When you’re at the beginning, don’t obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there. Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving.”
― Chip Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

“You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

“Your thoughts and beliefs are the single most important indicator of your state of health.”
― Christiane Northrup, Goddesses Never Age: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality, and Well-Being

“When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“How sad it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“Just as the Buddha taught, it’s important to see suffering as suffering. We are not talking about ignoring or keeping quiet. When we don’t buy into our opinions and solidify the sense of enemy, we will accomplish something. If we don’t get swept away by our outrage, then we will see the cause of suffering more clearly. That is how the cessation of suffering evolves.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“We can make ourselves miserable, or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same. Right”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“Just because people want to put things on your plate because you’re good doesn’t mean you should let them.”
― Brendon Burchard, High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.”
― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“you can do small things inside your mind that will lead to big changes in your brain and your experience of living.”
― Rick Hanson, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

“Every day, try to have compassion for five kinds of people: someone you’re grateful to (a “benefactor”), a loved one or friend, a neutral person, someone who is difficult for you—and yourself.”
― Rick Hanson, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

“The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed to be.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“A surface desire is one that conflicts with our Knowing. We must ask of our surface desires: What is the desire beneath this desire? Is it rest? Is it peace?”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Nothing is as clean and nutritious as a customer-inspected facility and business. When the relationship marketer must pass the scrutiny of the discriminating patron, who personally looks over the entire operation, you’d better believe not one in a thousand would risk doing something unscrupulous.”
― Joel Salatin, You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise

“Diving Into the Wreck,”14 There is a ladder. The ladder is always there hanging innocently close to the side of the schooner ... I go down ... I came to explore the wreck ... I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail ...”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype