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"One must care about a world one will not see."

Russell, Bertrand on responsibility    Share


"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."

Schweitzer, Albert on service    Share

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

Schweitzer, Albert on service
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"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."

Schweitzer, Albert on passion    Share

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

Schweitzer, Albert on cooperation
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"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."

Bakunin, Mikhail on destructiveness
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"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt."

Bakunin, Mikhail on rebellion
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"The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth."

Bakunin, Mikhail on religion
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"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it."

Bakunin, Mikhail on goodness
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"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble."

Benjamin, Walter on destructiveness
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"Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates."

Sade, Marquis De on destructiveness
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"It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have."

Fitch, Janet on destructiveness    Share

"As children mature into young adults they slowly realize that the Gods of their youth were merely well intentioned but flawed people."

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"Genuis flows through the most improbable portals"

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"One of the tragedies of life is the demise a loved one, the other is the loss of respect for a friend."

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"The rewards which one accrues for maintaining their facade are neuroses.."

Blum, Donald on adonybus    Share

"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on acceptance
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"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."

Frost, Robert on acceptance
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"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

Moustakas, Clark on acceptance
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season."

Frost, Robert on acceptance
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"Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, Joy is not in things, it is in us."

Borysenko, Joan on gratitude    Share

"We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on aid and assistance    Share

"Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm."

Fuller, Elizabeth on aid and assistance    Share

"A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth."

Lao-Tzu on growth
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"Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf."

Coolidge, Susan on growth
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"We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't."

Clark, Frank A. on growth
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"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on growth
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"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness."

Buck, Pearl S. on growth    Share

"Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home."

Dhammapada on growth    Share

"Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on growth
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"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."

Khan, Pir Vilayat on growth
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"Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark."

King, Stephen on growth
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"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."

Tracy, Brian on growth
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates on growth
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

Miller, Henry on growth
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"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential."

Lee, Bruce on growth
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