Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Henry Ward BeecherRead
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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.
When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.
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