Joan Halifax
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We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compas... JOAN HALIFAX Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the b... JOAN HALIFAX Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us... JOAN HALIFAX I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six yea... JOAN HALIFAX Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have cre... JOAN HALIFAX Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful an... JOAN HALIFAX Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our wor... JOAN HALIFAX Mountain’s realization comes through the details of the breath, mountain appears in each step. Mou... JOAN HALIFAX Everybody has a geography that can be used for change that is why we travel to far off places. Wheth... JOAN HALIFAX This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine. JOAN HALIFAX Speaking in Creation's tongues, hearing Creation's voices, the boundary of our soul expands. Earth h... JOAN HALIFAX Speaking in Creations tongues, hearing Creations voices, the boundary of our soul expands. Earth has... JOAN HALIFAX Within and around the earth, within and around the hills, within and around the mountains your autho... JOAN HALIFAX Mountains have long been a geography for pilgrimage, place where people have been humbled and streng... JOAN HALIFAX Some of us are drawn to mountains the way the moon draws the tide. Both the great forests and the mo... JOAN HALIFAX In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we c... JOAN HALIFAX Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. HALIFAX He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. HALIFAX Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. LORD HALIFAX The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies. LORD HALIFAX Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. LORD HALIFAX There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured. LORD HALIFAX Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the ob... LORD HALIFAX Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax. LORD HALIFAX If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men ... LORD HALIFAX A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second... LORD HALIFAX The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. LORD HALIFAX The likelihood now must be that the picture would pass to an overseas buyer, LORD HALIFAX Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one. LORD HALIFAX If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. LORD HALIFAX Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everythi... EDWARD F. HALIFAX Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it. EDWARD F. HALIFAX Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. EDWARD F. HALIFAX The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. EDWARD F. HALIFAX If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. EDWARD F. HALIFAX Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. EDWARD F. HALIFAX Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care... EDWARD F. HALIFAX The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. EDWARD F. HALIFAX He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things. EDWARD F. HALIFAX I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolin... EDWARD F. HALIFAX Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the ob... EDWARD F. HALIFAX Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. EDWARD F. HALIFAX When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters. EDWARD F. HALIFAX True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. EDWARD F. HALIFAX The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. EDWARD F. HALIFAX True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. EDWARD F. HALIFAX Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide. EDWARD F. HALIFAX A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner. EDWARD F. HALIFAX Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way. EDWARD F. HALIFAX True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes EDWARD F. HALIFAX Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness. GEORGE SAVILE HALIFAX Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. GEORGE SAVILE, LORD HALIFAX JOAN RIVERS When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and ... JOAN SMALLS JOAN DIDION I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. JOAN MIRO JOAN RIVERS JOAN RIVERS JOAN RIVERS JOAN RIVERS JOAN RIVERS JOAN RIVERS JOAN RIVERS JOAN RIVERS JOAN RIVERS JOAN RIVERS JOAN RIVERS JOAN RIVERS JOAN RIVERS Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress. JOAN SMALLS JOAN DIDION JOAN DIDION JOAN RIVERS JOAN BAEZ We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup. JOAN GREENWOOD JOAN JETT JOAN JETT JOAN CUSACK JOAN DIDION JOAN COLLINS I love getting back to Wivenhoe. I get out of my wig, bustle and costume in three minutes flat at th... JOAN HICKSON JOAN BAEZ JOAN BLADES Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. 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JOAN KIRNER JOAN JETT JOAN LINGARD JOAN CUSACK JOAN CRAWFORD JOAN DIDION JOAN BLADES All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away. JOAN CHEN JOAN CUSACK JOAN DIDION JOAN RIVERS JOAN JETT JOAN CUSACK JOAN RIVERS JOAN CUSACK JOAN JETT My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times... JOAN SMALLS JOAN LUNDEN JOAN COLLINS JOAN DIDION JOAN RIVERS JOAN COLLINS JOAN JETT JOAN RIVERS JOAN JETT JOAN RIVERS JOAN RIVERS JOAN DIDION JOAN DIDION JOAN DIDION JOAN RIVERS JOAN LINGARD JOAN COLLINS JOAN JETT For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life m... JOAN MIRO I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of ... JOAN KIRNER JOAN DIDION I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'... JOAN HICKSON JOAN BAEZ Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was... JOAN ALLEN The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. JOAN MIRO When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important tha... JOAN ARMATRADING When I first met Antonin Scalia, I was a small child with one brown ponytail atop my head. Which is ... JOAN LARSEN JOAN JETT JOAN BLADES You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up.... JOAN SEVERANCE JOAN DIDION My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid. JOAN BAUER JOAN LUNDEN JOAN BLADES What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman. JOAN MIRó JOAN RIVERS JOAN DIDION
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