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The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -Marilyn Ferguson.
Topic: Change
I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.
Topic: Melancholy
Author: Midori Ito
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
Topic: Advice
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
Author: Mae West
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Topic: Value
Author: Anon
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Topic: Ignorance
Author: Mark Twain
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Topic: Imitation
Author: Carl Jung
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. - The Summing Up.
Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.
Topic: Deceit
Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe. You are no longer working against the grain of the universe; you're working with it... You have been forgiven by God and now you can forgive yourself. All self hate, self-despising, self-rejection, drop away, and you accept yourself in God, respect yourself, and love yourself... You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city ... Gas-filled, noisy and hazardous, our streets have become the most inhumane landscape in the world.
Topic: Pollution
I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
Topic: Taxes
Author: Dick Gregory
For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Topic: Teachers
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Topic: Weeping
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
Topic: Help
Author: Hippocrates
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
Topic: Men
10 million people marched against the war on 5 continents in the most united opposition to war ever seen in history. Not in a single European country was opposition to the war less than 89%.
Topic: Peace
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.
Topic: Change
Author: Tolstoy
The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.
Author: Anonymous