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  • It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us - and the key here is constant familiarity. The nature of human thoughts and emotions is such that the more you engage in them, the more you consciously develop them, the more powerful they become.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Compassion Quotes
  • Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,) Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Powerful Quotes , War Quotes
  • Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Passion Quotes