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“As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!”
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”
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“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
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“I think what everyone should be doing, before it's too late, is committing themselves to what they really want to do with their lives.”
― The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet
― The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet
“What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
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