Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
– Sharon Salzberg
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- Plants and Books are silent Friends to Mankind.The former grows silently to let you live.The later grows you silently to ‘live – Sridhar Movva
- Don’t forget: Without fuel, a fire grows cold-”and without the -œfuel- of the Bible, prayer, and Christian fellowship, our faith grows cold. – Billy Graham
- When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. – Ursula K Le Guin
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