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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.
– Lao Tzu

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I was persuaded and am, that God’s way is first to turn a soul from its idols, both of heart, worship, and conversation, before it is capable of worship to the true and living God.
~ Roger Williams (Born December 21, 1603)

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All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence. ~ Benjamin Disraeli in Coningsby

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (died 21 December 1940)

If there is a God, I don’t think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn’t finished. ~ Rebecca West (born 21 December 1892)

This is the stillness behind motion, when time itself stops; the center is also the circumference of all.
We are awake in the night.
We turn the Wheel to bring the light.
We call the sun from the womb of night.
Blessed Be!
~ Starhawk

i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday… ~ e. e. cummings

We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. ~ Thomas Jefferson

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Faith is the force of life.
– Leo Tolstoy

Joy is what happens to us when we ALLOW ourselves to recognize how GOOD things really are.
– Marianne Williamson

‎”When traveling on the ocean, one comes upon areas, here or there, where the sea is calm. Even so, on the great ocean of delusion one finds, occasionally, areas of exceptional calmness. This happens when an avatar, or divine incarnation, is sent to earth with a special dispensation. All who come to him and tune in to his spirit find it relatively easy to escape delusion’s power.”

‎”Obedience must be to the highest that is in your own self. Spiritual instruction, too, must proceed from that high level of consciousness. It must be attuned to the guidance for which your own soul is longing.”

‎”Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.”

‎”The real You is the prolific source of all power; the basic you is infinite in its potentiality.”

‎”God cannot be attained by so simple an act as merely dying! To die is easy, but it is very difficult to attain that high level of consciousness in which the soul can merge back into Infinity.”
– Paramahansa Yogananda

All that we are is a result of what we have thought.
– Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
~ Jonathan Swift

It is possible to live in peace.
– Mahatma Gandhi

WE MUST GET RID OF THE LIFE WE PLANNED AND HAVE THE LIFE THAT IS WAITING FOR US.
– JOSEPH CAMPBELL, THE HERO’S JOURNEY

The Universe is one big, cosmic celebration. How you choose to enjoy your stay in this reality is entirely up to you. Remember, life is not coming at you, it’s coming from you. Your thoughts, feelings, and actions are generating the vibration that attracts the circumstances of your life. If you are not enjoying your life, go within to find out why.
– Dorothy Mendoza Row

Peace, like charity, begins at home.
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The universe operates through dynamic exchange… giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. and in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.
– Deepak Chopra

We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent “elementary parts” of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole.

There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.

Of course, we must avoid postulating a new element for each new phenomenon. But an equally serious mistake is to admit into the theory only those elements which can now be observed. For the purpose of a theory is not only to correlate the results of observations that we already know how to make, but also to suggest the need for new kinds of observations and to predict their results. In fact, the better a theory is able to suggest the need for new kinds of observations and to predict their results correctly, the more confidence we have that this theory is likely to be good representation of the actual properties of matter and not simply an empirical system especially chosen in such a way as to correlate a group of already known facts.

The weekend began with the expectation that there would be a series of lectures and informative discussions with emphasis on content. It gradually emerged that something more important was actually involved — the awakening of the process of dialogue itself as a free flow of meaning among all the participants. In the beginning, people were expressing fixed positions, which they were tending to defend, but later it became clear that to maintain the feeling of friendship in the group was much more important than to hold any position. Such friendship has an impersonal quality in the sense that its establishment does not depend on a close personal relationship between participants. A new kind of mind thus begins to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue. People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change. In this development the group has no pre-established purpose, though at each moment a purpose that is free to change may reveal itself. The group thus begins to engage in a new dynamic relationship in which no speaker is excluded, and in which no particular content is excluded. Thus far we have only begun to explore the possibilities of dialogue in the sense indicated here, but going further along these lines would open up the possibility of transforming not only the relationship between people, but even more, the very nature of consciousness in which these relationships arise.
Unfolding Meaning: a weekend of dialogue with David Bohm (1985)

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts. Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale…

Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven’t really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Every thinking requires attention, really. If we ran machines withinout paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.

We probed into the nature of space and time, and of the universal, both with regard to external nature and with regard to mind. But then, we went on to consider the general disorder and confusion that pervades the consciousness of mankind. It is here that I encountered what I feel to be Krishnamurti’s major discovery. What he was seriously proposing is that all this disorder, which is the root cause of such widespread sorrow and misery, and which prevents human beings from properly working together, has its root in the fact that we are ignorant of the general nature of our own processes of thought. Or to put it differently it may be said that we do not see what is actually happening, when we are engaged in the activity of thinking.
“A Brief Introduction to the Work of Krishnamurti”
– David Bohm (Born December 20, 1917)

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Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man
Commands all light, all influence, all fate.
Nothing to him falls early, or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
~ John Fletcher (baptized 20 December 1579)

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ~ John Steinbeck

This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost. ~ John Steinbeck

Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy. ~ Edwin Abbott Abbott (Born 20 December 1838)

For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions, and by the depth of our answers. ~ Carl Sagan (died 20 December 1996)

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed. ~ Joseph Campbell

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
– Jimi Hendrix

All works of love are works of peace.
~ Mother Theresa

The whole purport may be stated thus: Act so that ye have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves; and hold fast to this rule.
– Milarepa

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
~ Vincent Van Gogh

Every wall is a door.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
~ Henry Miller

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
♥ William James

Be generous with kind words, especially about those who are absent.
♥ Goethe

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
– Mother Teresa

That’s Capitalism, but they prefer you to call it “freedom.”
~ Paul Nicholson

Never complain and never explain.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

To do is to be
– Nietzsche

To be is to do
– Kant

Do be do be do
– Sinatra

‎”Nobility of spirit is the grace—or ability—to play, whether in heaven or on earth.”
~ Joseph Campbell

Monitor your inner dialogue, and match your thoughts to what you want and what you intend to create.
– Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Genuine love and peace come from loving & being peaceful not from a sense of duty guilt or morality.
– Deepak Chopra

I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.
~ Kathleen Quinlan

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
~ Picasso

Man is not made for defeat.
~ Ernest Hemingway

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
~ Chinese Proverb

I can’t imagine where I would be today were it not for a handful of friends who gave me a heart-full of JOY.
~ C.R.Swindoll

‘Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!
– William Wordsworth

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
~ Loren Eiseley

“Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of…” Lydia M. Child http://bit.ly/fip2ge

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein

I believe a proper use of our time is to serve others if we can or at least refrain from harming them. That is the basis of my philosophy.
– Dalai Lama

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
~Jim Morrison

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
– Peter Drucker. Action Priority Matrix

People only see what they are prepared to see.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The years teach much which the days never knew.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
~ David Gerrold
‎
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
– Emma Lazarus

When we speak of a calm state of mind or peace of mind, we shouldn’t confuse that with an insensitive state of apathy. Having a calm or peaceful state of mind doesn’t mean being spaced out or completely empty. Peace of mind or a calm state of mind is rooted in affection and compassion and is sensitive and responsive to others.
– Dalai Lama

‎Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
– Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

Jean-Dominique Bauby : I decided to stop pitying myself. Other than my eye, two things aren’t paralyzed, my imagination and my memory.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
~ Henry Morton Stanley

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
– Michael Caine

And I won’t be laughing at the lies when I’m gone
And I can’t question how or when or why when I’m gone
Can’t live proud enough to die when I’m gone
So I guess I’ll have to do it while I’m here.
~ Phil Ochs ~

After the final no there comes a yes
And on that yes the future world depends.
No was the night. Yes is this present sun.
~ Wallace Stevens ~

In such an ugly time the true protest is beauty. ~ Phil Ochs

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion. That’s art. That’s life. ~ Phil Ochs (born 19 December 1940)

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ~ Emily Brontë (died 19 December 1848)

In the winter season, for seven days of calm, Alcyone broods over her nest on the surface of the waters while the sea-waves are quiet. Through this time Aeolus keeps his winds at home, and ocean is smooth for his descendants’ sake. ~ Ovid

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Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,
Risen with healing in his wings.
Mild he lays his glory by,
Born that man no more may die,
Born to raise the sons of earth,
Born to give us second birth.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the new born King!”
~ Charles Wesley ~ (born 18 December 1707, and song for the Christmas season)

I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For I reside just as much with the dead as with the unborn. Somewhat closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough. ~ Paul Klee

Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are many more other, latent realities. Things appear to assume a broader and more diversified meaning, often seemingly contradicting the rational experience of yesterday. There is a striving to emphasize the essential character of the accidental. ~ Paul Klee (born 18 December 1879)

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die. ~ Steve Biko (born 18 December 1946)

The Tree that was withered shall be renewed, and he shall plant it in the high places, and the City shall be blessed. Sing all ye people! ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
(From The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King (Book VI, Chapter 5, “The Steward and the King”); in the novel this is a song of a great Eagle heralding the victory of Aragorn’s forces against those of Sauron and the Dark Tower.)

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ~ Bertrand Russell

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring,
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
~ “Arwen” in the film The Return of the King ~ (in relation to the opening of the movie based upon The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien; In the novel The Lord of the Rings this statement first occurs in The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 10, “Strider”, in a letter by Gandalf to Frodo.)

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ~ G. K. Chesterton

Fear… can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. ~ Philip K. Dick (born 16 December 1928)

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art. ~ George Santayana (born 16 December 1863)

Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. ~ Philip K. Dick

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C. Clarke (Date of birth)

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ George Santayana

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Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
~ Mary Webb

“In friendship’s fragrant garden,there are flowers of every hue.Each with its own fair…
-Friendship’s Garden

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. ~ Paul Klee

Oaks are the true conservatives; They hold old leaves till summer gives A green exchange.
~ Roy Helton, Come Back to Earth

‎Ben dostalarımı ne kalbimle ne de aklımla severim. ♥
I love my friends neither with my hearth nor with my mind. ♥
Olur Ya …. ♥
Just in case … ♥
Kalp durur… ♥
Hearth might stop… ♥
Akıl unutur … ♥
Mind can forget… ♥
Ben dostlarımı ruhumla severim. ♥
I love them with my soul. ♥
O ne durur ne unutur. ♥
Soul never stops or forget.
– Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
– Albert Schweitzer

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
– Albert Schweitzer

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
~ Goethe

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
– Henry Louis Mencken

All is not butter that comes from the cow.
– Proverb

Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
~ Doris Mortman

Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
~ Roy Lichtenstein

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
~ John Muir

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
– Helen Keller

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
– Margaret Thatcher

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Imagination is more important than knowledge…
– Albert Einstein

An enormous amount of energy becomes available once we give up the need to be right.
– Deepak Chopra

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
~ Voltaire

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
~ Philip James Bailey

Your life is always perfect: you are always at the right place at the right time.
~ Salerno

The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose.
– William Wordsworth

LOVE is my gift to the world.
– Wayne Dyer

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
– Socrates

The power of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary efforts.
– Blaise Pascal

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself
– Mark Twain

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle!
~ Osho

I light my candle from their torches.
~ Robert Burton

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
– Abba Eban

Every second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe. A moment that will never be again.
– Pablo Picasso

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
~ Charles Dickens

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
– Albert Einstein

People who do not experience self love have little or no capacity to love others.
– Nathaniel Branden

We need to stop saying we can’t rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.
– Sibel Edmonds

We must not bring one war to an end… but the idea of war itself.
– Deepak Chopra

An education that does not cultivate the will is an education that deprives the mind.
– Anatole France

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our Divine courage, freedom and light!
– Hafiz

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle it in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That “couldn’t be done,” and you’ll do it.
– Edgar A. Guest

The seas are the heart’s blood of the earth
~ Henry Beston

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
~ Eckhart Tolle

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
– Albert Einstein

For me, loving you and your life has never been a function of what you do or don’t do, have or don’t have, are or are not. That would be rather ridiculous, don’t you think? Not to mention superficial, judgmental, and thoroughly dim-witted.
I think you should adopt the same policy.
~ Tallyho, The Universe

A place for everything, everything in its place.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision WITH action can change the world.
~ J. Barker

Inside a lover’s heart, there is another world.. and yet another.
– Rumi

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
– Corita Kent

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.

You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression … If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. And if we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to Earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie, love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is an eternal light. Infinite. The thread that binds every beautiful memory & every amazing moment.
~ Toni Carmine Salerno

Don’t give up. I believe in you all. A person’s a person no matter how small.
~ Dr. Seuss

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be! Now put foundations under them.
– Henry David Thoreau

Queen and huntress chaste and fair
Now the sun is laid to sleep
Seated in a silver chair
State in wanted manner keep

Earth let not an envious shade
Dare itself to interpose
Cynthia’s shining orb was made
Heaven to cheer when day did close

Lay the bow of pearl apart
And the crystal-shining quiver
Give unto the flying heart
Space to breath how short so ever

Hesperus entreaty thy light
Goddess excellently bright
Bless us then with wished sight
Thou who makes a day of night
– Mike Oldfield, Incantations #4

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
– Martin Luther King, Jr

This nation will be difficult to govern when one political party insists on creating its own reality.
~ Paul Krugman

Challenge yourself to ask for even more, not just for yourself, but for ALL of humanity.
~ Sanaya Roman

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation of a distant memory, as if we were falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
– Carl Sagan

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Dream always of a peaceful, warless, disarmed world.
– Robert Muller

Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
~ Rumi

There is no loneliness to the clear-eyed mystic in this luminous, brimming playful world.
~ Hafiz

I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
– Maya Angelou

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
– Abraham Lincoln

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.~ Arabian #Proverb

It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Contrary to appearances, the Earth is in an ascending cycle, and good will triumph.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda

‎Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all.
~ Emily Dickinson

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit.
– Napolean Hill

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. ~ Mother Teresa

The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have.
– Brian Koslow

At the top of the mountain, we are all snow leopards.
– Hunter S. Thompson

Dance, when you’re broken open… Dance, when you’re perfectly free.
~ Rumi

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s JOY.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

‎Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear or let go.
– Cory Booker

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
– Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Mohandas Gandhi

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
Phyllis McGinley

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
David Borenstein

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Peace is its own reward.
Mohandas Gandhi

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
John Keble

Peace is when time doesn’t matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell

People always make war when they say they love peace.
David Herbert Lawrence

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.
Silvia Cartwright

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.
Peace Pilgrim

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life – bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
Peace Pilgrim

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
Black Kettle

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf

You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Geraldine Ferraro

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Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
– Thoreau

If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.
– Chinese Proverb

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
– Albert Einstein

Now I know what love is.
– Virgil

That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.
– Joan Baez

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
– César Chávez

If you cannot find #peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
~ Marvin Gaye

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war;but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
– Aristotle

For it isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

There was never a good war or a bad peace.
– Ben Franklin

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
– Thomas Carlyle

Awaken your true nature. Reach for the stars! True wisdom lies in the empty space between each thought. ~ Salerno

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
– Swami Sivananda

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
– Benjamin Franklin

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
– Irving Babbitt

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one’s level of peace of mind.
– Sydney Madwed

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
– Mohandas Gandhi

A people free to choose will always choose peace.
– Ronald Reagan

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Not only do we inherently possess the potential for compassion but I believe that the basic, underlying nature of human beings is gentleness.

Even our physical structure seems more suited to feelings of love and compassion. We can see how a calm, affectionate, wholesome state of mind benefits our health and physical well-being. Conversely, feelings of frustration, fear, agitation, and anger can be destructive to our health. This is why we are impelled to seek happiness.
– Dalai Lama

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
~ Maya Angelou

One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable!
~ Richard Bach

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
~ Whoopi Goldberg

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
~ Norman Vincent Peale

Optimism is positive thinking lighted up!
– Norman Vincent Peale

If you cannot find #peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
~ Marvin Gaye

“To See a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
— William Blake

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‎I’m Starting With The Man In The Mirror…I’m Asking Him To Change His Ways…And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer… If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change…
– Michael Jackson

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
~ Albert Einstein

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
~ Voltaire

The more time spent running the deep inner-peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peaceful our planet will be.
~ Taylor

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
~ Naguib Mahfouz