There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.


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A quiet reflection is a good starting point to break an obsession. Action without reflection is like...
JONATHAN CHEN
For one who relies on prejudices to vitalize his existence, freedom is but an illusion, because he i...
JONATHAN CHEN
There is no secret that injustice flourishes on prejudice. In fact, it is its main course for injust...
JONATHAN CHEN
Prejudice is in all of us. Some consciously enact ridding it to open themselves to a richer life tex...
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No matter how victorious those kings who flagged their hands in the bloody wars were glorified, my s...
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When the inner life embodies liberty and compassion, the outward action speaks peace.
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All it requires for being a champion for peace is a heart that believes in peace. Believe that I AM ...
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Deep down most people want peace, want to make friends, want to connect themselves with others. That...
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A mind is capable of harboring and ingesting a vast variety of ideas and information. It would be th...
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Law of nature is not a confinement to freedom. It safeguards the subsistence.
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The best teacher for every subject is nature, who also happens to use the universal language.
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It would be our greatest crime if the future generations can only see the beauty in nature from the ...
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Never once when gazing at the sky wasn't I in awe and wondering.
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Having a heart for all the beings breeds gentle sunshine in the inner world that beams outwards. Tha...
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Broad and sustainable love is not from an attraction in the form of compulsive sensation. Broad and ...
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Animosity is a temporary intrusion to the principle makeup of human nature of love, for no one is bo...
JONATHAN CHEN
Within the heaven of the godly peace lies love in all beings.
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Perhaps being able to see themselves through reflection is what truly distinguishes mankind.
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Liberty and compassion. That's the whole package we are capable of having. When that quality prevail...
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Mistaken not hatred for liberty. Disseminating hatred is an abuse of freedom. Liberty has no room fo...
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Don't let what we know stand in the way of what we could know.
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There is only one person who can bring peace to you – that's you.
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Idea comes from senses, but imagination goes beyond. Those who could impel idea with imagination hav...
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An ideology may be a base to form a opinion. But it should never be a base to shield unjust.
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All the lasting adversities humanity has been facing became essentially inevitable the day mankind a...
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For us to enliven the endurance of humanity, we must become accustomed to the repetition of humanita...
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Hatred is a passionate disease that impairs one's ability to see the better self.
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The drive to excellence Jobs had was a continuation of the great institution many had shared before ...
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As history be told truthfully, edification becomes much less exhausting.
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Names and labels are what we use to identify, not to divide.
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What we have been seeing these days is not quite as encouraging as what we used to believe that in t...
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Coexistence is not only possible, but beautiful.
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In a democracy, we expect the government to be tight-fit, transparent outfit that sticks to the body...
JONATHAN CHEN
Democracy is a whole package of institutional course for arriving at political decisions. It encomp...
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Democracy never guarantees the best to be elected. Democracy, as it is designed and when it is funct...
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I have gradually come to a clear identification of the most essential qualities for personal being: ...
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