Doug Marlette quotes

“Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.”
-- Doug Marlette

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“Cartoons are windows into the human condition,”
-- Doug Marlette

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“There’s no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.”
-- Doug Marlette

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“There’s no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.”
-- Doug Marlette

#Race Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.”

Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.66, Lulu.com

“When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.”

“I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.”

“If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 57), 1937.

“Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.”

Source : Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

“Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.”

Source : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.374, World Scientific

“As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.”

“In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.”

“There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.”

Source : Alan Chadwick (2008). “Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture”, Logosophia