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Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us. — Joan Halifax

May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others. — Joan Halifax

When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder. — Joan Halifax

We have plenty of money to do everything we want to do, if we do it smart. — Jim McCrery

What is obscenity? And to whom? — Allen Ginsberg

Don't ask about the consequences if you want to do something. Otherwise you'll never do it. — Erich Maria Remarque

I'm not crazy, I'm just colorful. — Butch Cassidy

People say- 'NASA lies.' I say- 'the moon knows it all. Look at the moon and forget the spinning flat world. — Munia Khan

Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words. — Shannon L. Alder

fear of being unmasked as the incompetent you "really" are is so common that it actually has a clinical name: impostor syndrome. — Megan McArdle

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created. — Joan Halifax

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength. — Joan Halifax

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear. — Joan Halifax

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal. — Emilio Estevez

Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha. — Joan Halifax

We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world. — Joan Halifax

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom. — Wanda Sykes

No single answer can hold the truth of a good heart. — Joan Halifax

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well. — Joan Halifax

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism. — Joan Halifax

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind. — Joan Halifax

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. — George Eliot

Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine. — Joan Halifax

Nothing's too fast if it means forever. — T.J. Klune