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Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.

Mark Nepo

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If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware.

John A. Sandford

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There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in ...

Leonard Cohen

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Marian Wright Edelman

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

William James

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Herbert Spencer

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It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

Pema Chodron

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

Pema Chodron

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It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

Eleanor Roosevelt (more)

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The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.

Ruth Stout

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Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.

Peggy Noonan

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It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

Pema Chodron

Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.

Pema Chodron

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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

D. H. Lawrence

In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.

John Dewey (more)

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Daniel Dennett

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No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.

Konosuke Matsushita

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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Margaret Fuller

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James Madison

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rather they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.

Andre Trocme

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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