The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.
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The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.
You never know when it is going to happen, when you will experience a moment that dramatically transforms your life. When you look back, often years later, you may see how a brief conversation or an insight you read somewhere, changed the entire course of your life.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
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