#pat

Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#attention

You’re impinging on my private space,” I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn’t the SAT, Nora. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#patch #sat #space

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#math #patterns #slow #math

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad-people #compassion #compassionate #comprehend #comprehending

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations. ↗

— Zoe Weil

#education #humane #mogo #nation #patriot

Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#jesus #mohammed #patanjali #truth #yoga

There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#guilt #impotence #iraq-war #leftism #pathology

He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#patch #consciousness

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it. ↗

— John Green

#pleasure

Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#hate