inspirational Quotes
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..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.
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What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.
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Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.
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In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.
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I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.
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If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.
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I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
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If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.
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Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
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We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond
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We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them.
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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
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Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.
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When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
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When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
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A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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You have the ability to change or create anything in your life, starting now.
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I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will and originality. Since anything physical can be mental, that island can be your home. Turn off the electromagnetic waves being forced upon you, the countless invisible forces coming at you all the time.
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How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.
