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"The power in freedom is that it allows the mind to be capable. The curious mind is engaged by change, not overwhelmed. The free mind is powerful because it is energetic and confident that it can solve whatever problem it encounters. A mind full of wonder does not seek to make others...

Sunday morning with Deng Ming-Dao.. "A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. . . . Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is...

*My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no person's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny*. (Elaine Maxwell)

*Every action of our lives touches some chord that will vibrate in eternity.* Edwin Hubbel Chapin *Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.* Ralph Waldo Emerson *Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to...

"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." ~~Bertrand Russell.

"Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson "People travel to wonder at the...

"Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust...

"Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.” Plotinus

"Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor...

Mary Oliver.. One of my favorite poems....not so much a quote, but a brilliant poem about life: The Summer Day Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who...

Uncle Bertrand Russell: Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind]. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring...

"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. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history." ~~André...

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." ~G.K. Chesterton "To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the...

The Self..

**Where ever you may wander.. Where ever you may roam.. Always keep a diamond in your mind...** (The Great Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 2000)

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” Mary Anne Radmacher

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else, you are the one who gets burned." Buddha

I do love this thread, and I thought to myself "oh what if we start to repeat all our quotes"...and then I thought, but isn't that good? "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts. That Hope always...

Henry David Thoreau...(great name) "There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring it yourself.." "The cloning of humans is on most of the lists to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic...

'Imi ola.. and other Hawaiian Values 'Imi ola ....Hawaiian, (pronounced Ee-mee-ola) Translation: "To seek life" Value:"Teaches us that our purpose in life is to seek its highest possible form." Found this and more, ratting around the world and languages...really like it...