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It feels strangely liberating to do precisely as instructed. I don’t have to worry about displeasing the sergeant as long as I follow his orders exactly.
It is liberating to not have to think for yourself, to be able to blame the person giving instruction. But do anything to stay out of trouble is not always the right way. Sometimes questions need to be asked.
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
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“It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.”
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
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“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
― Buddha's Little Instruction Book
― Buddha's Little Instruction Book
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Edwina Howard’s 2025 Year in Books
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