Elizabeth Kim said this quote

We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.

~ Elizabeth Kim

I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself--in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.

~ Elizabeth Kim

People said things to me like They're just animals. They're here for our use. I had a visceral reaction to that phrase, maybe because I was told countless times during my growing-up years that I was just like an animal. I had suffered much of my life because I was considered less than human. Animals were suffering because they were less than human. And it seemed to me that human didn't have much to be proud of, if they treated other living things with such blind cruelty.

~ Elizabeth Kim