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You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope.
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In the world of ideas it is the emotionally insecure who censure others while remaining prisoners of constricting ideologies and mindsets. Unable to handle too much knowledge, they find comfort in these narrow confines. It remains to the adventurous and unguarded that broad vistas open.
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Contribution #6736
Gracie: "Don’t give up, Blanche. Women don’t do that. Look at Betsy Ross, Martha Washington—they didn’t give up. Look at Nina Jones." Blanche Morton: "Nina Jones?" Gracie: "I’ve never heard of her either, because she gave up."
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When they give you lined paper, write the other way.
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Fahrenheit 451
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Contribution #6699
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide
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André Gide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide
Viewed on March 5, 2012
Contribution #6660
Such two speeches cannot wait : I LOVE YOU and I AM SORRY. Elsewise, you may live with regrets to the end.
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Life should be as colourful as the rainbow. Please remember, you are your own painter always.......
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.
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"Peace can not be fought for. The minute we fight for our own peace, or the peace of others, we enter into battle and peace will ever elude us. The key to peace is to allow ourselves to know, and be known, by our creator, our spouse, our friends;and there in realize we are accepted for who we are, not what we are."
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Contribution #6493
I never asked for the pain and suffering to quit, but I did ask for it to be quick.
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Human Being
Contribution #6488
Action trumps depression. Confronted with a situation in which our feelings of powerlessness are more than just feelings, we choose to fight the odds, as an existential statement. We bellow our savage war cry in the face of the Roman Legions. We swim against the tidal wave. We attack Goliath with a slingshot, and throw stones at a Sherman tank, and ravage ICBMs with our ball peen hammer. We actively reject the reality of our helplessness; and as we assert defiance, we fan the embers of humanity wherever they live within ourselves and our brothers and sisters.
A poet’s work. To name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
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The Satanic Verses
Page via the poet character, Baal.
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Contribution #6465
I know the art how to play in the mud. I will wade across safe fishing out the meat.
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It is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a critic of the society in which he lives. It is easy enough, and always profitable, to rail away at national enemies beyond the sea, at foreign powers beyond our borders who question the prevailing order. But the moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home; to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own culture. If the writer is unwilling to fill this part, then the writer should abandon pretense and find another line of work: become a shoe repairman, a brain surgeon, a janitor, a cowboy, a nuclear physicist, a bus driver.
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Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruuised and misunderstood... For it is not difference which immobilizes us most but silence...
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There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, been a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will
Some people cannot afford to fall ill and die: they have great fear.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. Erma Bombeck
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"......And she's courageous but scared to death But that's what courage means"
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Cut your own path and make your life happen
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Self
Contribution #6155
There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win…. Note how often...we have been surprised. By the sudden emergence of a people's movement, the sudden overthrow of a tyranny, the sudden coming to life of a flame we thought extinguished. We are surprised because we have not taken notice of the quiet simmerings of indignation, of the first faint sounds of protest, of the scattered signs of resistance that, in the midst of our despair, portend the excitement of change. The isolated acts begin to join, the individual thrusts blend into organized actions, and one day, often when the situation seems most hopeless, there bursts onto the scene a movement.
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Do the thing you are afraid to do, and the death of fear is certain.
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http://
Contribution #6122
Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.
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Embrace the World
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Contribution #6109
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
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Do not have fear, for it is an empty threat of the cold.
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My own words
Contribution #5990
With courage we may face our doubt and in dire need we may be freed.
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My own words
Contribution #5955
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road”
"We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself."
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
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A book should serve as the ax for the frozen seas within us.
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http://
Contribution #5883
“First they ignore us, then they laugh at us, then they attack us- then we win.”
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“Cowardice asks the question- Is it safe? Expediency asks the question- Is it politic? Vanity asks the question- Is it popular? But conscience asks the question- Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.” (Martin Luther King Jr.)
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“Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.”
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“What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain…To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to attempt to define it, to try and fight it all at once, is impossible. The only way to combat it is by fighting specific wars in specific ways.”
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“Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the ‘truth’ one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.”
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“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
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“If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.”
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“Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.”
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“In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.”
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What you fear, approach. What you deny, say. What you control, release. With fear, denial, and control aside, you can see things in your own unique and authentic way.
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Source type: Book
A Quiet Place: Essays on Life and Family
Page 81
Published by Mothering Publications
, Santa Fe, NM USA
, 2005
http://www.mothering.com/
Contribution #5479
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.”
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“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
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“If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote or incite violence.”
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
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“Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You’re so sure you’ll do everything wrong you’re afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one’s self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.”
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“One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.”
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“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”
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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
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“The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated…Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.”
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“A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed- I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”
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“Never be frightened! Be fearless! There is no room for fear. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is adharma and fear is disloyalty. All delusions emanate from this evil called fear.”
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“The fear of anything is the fear of death, and the fear of death is the same as the fear of life...You cannot live fully until you are willing to die fully and you cannot die fully until you are willing to meet the fear of death fully. If you really meet the fear of death, you are at peace. You recognize what cannot die. To meet death is not suicide, nor is it the least bit dangerous. It only seems dangerous. What is dangerous, what is a living suicide, is to live your life in bondage to the belief that you are limited to a body (or a mind, or any-thing). As long as you resist the fact of death and hide from death through the tricks of the mind, you will suffer.”
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I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.
"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found." Pema Chodron
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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I looked up Soren Kierkegaard up on the internet one day and kept this quote. I don't know where the website is now.
Contribution #4824
Take a moment as though it were a canvas. Begin to paint on it creative blends of colors. In every moment we can find and live our purpose.
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This was something I wrote while thinking about purpose.
Contribution #4823
Every moment is a chance to fulfill our purpose.
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This is something I had to put down in words while I was thinking about this "ultimate purpose" there could be for my life. My conclusion was this quote.
Contribution #4822
To know how to say what other people only think is what makes men poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers, or both.
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There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be happy; it needs the desire for knowledge and the determination to eschew pleasant myths; it needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.
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The Impact of Science on Society
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Contribution #4793
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then – to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you.
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The Once and Future King
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Contribution #4792
"Life is too short to have negative friends."
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"Nothing can sabotage winning, except for fear of losing. Success usually lies just beyond failure."
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"Don't tell me what you're not, or what you're against! Tell me who you are and what you stand for."
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"I've learnt in life that you will never soar like an eagle if you insist on surrounding yourself with chickens"
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"You can either advance boldly in the direction of your dreams, or retreat fearfully into the safety of the habitual"
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In all my life I've only seen a dozen real killers, but I've seen ten thousand people that would stand by and let it happen. Which is the greater evil?
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Have Gun Will Travel
Contribution #4725
Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty or cured a disease. Fear never ruled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry. Fear never saved a marriage or a business. Courage did that. Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidity did that. But fear itself? Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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When you have chosen your part, abide by it and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself to the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common heroic. Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
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May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership… Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Contribution #4648
The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief.
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The Art of Condolence: What to Write, Say and Do at a Time of Loss
by Leonard M. Zunin, MD and Hilary Stanton Zunin
Published by HarperCollins
, New York
, 1992
http://Amazon
Contribution #4621
Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.
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The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
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Contribution #4610
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
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When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
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Wordsmith
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)
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A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on September 2, 2010
Contribution #4338
Aid, then, Thy Lord through such ascendancy and might as We have bestowed upon Thee. Take heed lest Thou falter on that Day when all created things are filled with dismay; rather be Thou the revealer of My name, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
I shall go wherever I am asked to participate for freedom.
Birds make great sky circles of their freedom. How do they do that? They fall. And falling, they are given wings"
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Contribution #4279
Oh, threats of hell and hopes of paradise! / One thing at least is certain -- this life flies; / One thing is certain, and the rest is lies; / The flower that once has blown forever dies.
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Wordsmith
-Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and physician (1048-1131)
"
A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on August 11, 2010
Contribution #4263
"The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being." -Rumi
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Contribution #4254
Fear not, Cesario; take thy fortunes up; Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art As great as that thou fear'st.
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The Hope of Tomorrow - Unless we become the living embodiment of love and light, we shall have no justification in saying that God is love and light. Unless we use the freedom we have without abusing it, we shall have no justification in saying that man is master of his own soul, the creator of his own destiny, and the arbiter of his own fate. But if we can bind ourselves together reverently, in love and compassion, in mutual tolerance and understanding, under the cohesive powers of the universal law of good and the beneficence of a divine and universal presence, then shall we be able to use the liberty without license, to diffuse unity with uniformity, and to lead the world down the pathway of a new enlightenment.
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Science of Mind Magazine
Hearts Full of Fire
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Contribution #4240
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
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Contribution #4225
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
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The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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Redemption is invented by the sinner.
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The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows My Name - USA)
Published in 2007
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Contribution #4068
The dream is illusion. The work is life.
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Personal Communication
Contribution #4044
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
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Wordsmith
Richard Bach, writer (b. 1936)
"
A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on May 10, 2010
Contribution #4021
Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
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Here I stand; I can do no other.
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Wikipedia
Traditional attribution to Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms in 1521 now doubted
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Diet of Worms"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_of_Worms
Viewed on March 9, 2010
Contribution #3866
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
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Malcolm X
Contribution #3815
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
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Holy Bible
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Contribution #3796
Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
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Contribution #3769
I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.
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Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1967
Contribution #3750
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love"
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The Strength Of Love
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Contribution #3741
I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.
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The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.
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"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
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A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
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The same lesson keeps presenting itself to me. As soon as I rebound, I will be presented with the same lesson.
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from me
Contribution #3622
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Days Of Healing Days OF Joy
by Earnie Larsen & Carol Larsen Hegarty
Page May 4
Published by Hazelden Meditations
, Center City MN
, 1987
http://
Contribution #3621
"The world will be saved by the western woman."
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Women on the Edge of Evolution
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
http://womenontheedgeofevolution.com/
Viewed on November 13, 2009
Contribution #3620
In their voices they found themselves.
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Margaret is my friend and she shared this with our women's circle.
http://margaretcasarez.com/
Contribution #3611
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.
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The Reenchantment of Everyday Life
Published in U.S.A.
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Contribution #3494
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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from Rev. Christopher Chenoweth: "I have said, many times, there are two types of people in this world, vacuums and sprinklers." from -Tirukkural - "What is virtuous conduct? It is never destroying life, for killing leads to every other sin. Of all virtues summed by ancient sages, the foremost are to share one's food and to protect all living creatures." from Swami Vivekananda - "Whenever darkness comes, assert the reality and everything adverse must vanish. For, after all, it is but a dream. Mountain high though the difficulties appear... they are but maya. Fear not - it is banished. Crush it and it vanishes... Go forward. Assert yourself again and again and light must come." from Plato – "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. " from Jimi Hendrix – “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
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a personal collection of wisdom quotes, compiled from various Scriptures and the Web
Contribution #3366
It’s in the courage writ small, repeated ten thousand times that we create ourselves.
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At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
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A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past, or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.
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Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
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Annie Besant
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Contribution #3141
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
When once you have taken the impossible into your calculations, it's possibilities become practically limitless!
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I read this and copied it down to carry in my wallet more than 20 years ago. Do not remember the exact source.
Contribution #3106
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
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On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to rest - and there resting, died.
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Puzzles and Essays from "The Exchange" by Charles R. Anderson
Contribution #2890
You can't always change the feelings you're having but you can always change your thinking.
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My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity, grasping life in all of its complex wonder, having the courage to live fully, to love wastefully and to be all that each of us can be and that it will express itself in our national life in more earth centered, justice enhancing and humane ways.
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
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Pearls of Thought
by Maturin Murray Ballou
Page 52
Published by Houghton, Mifflin
, Boston, MA USA
, 1881
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26604
Contribution #2825
Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world.
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speech, Jan. 8, 2008
Contribution #2536
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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We need people who will dare to risk anything and everything to see things different.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Heart, be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men, as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
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In times of universal deceit, truth-telling becomes a revolutionary act.
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It is not the "courage to be" that we must develop as much as the "courage to become." We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944
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Contribution #1800
The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly, who know the great enthusiams, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who, at the best, know the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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It is better to fail at doing something, than to succeed in doing nothing.
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heard it years ago
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Contribution #1640
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation). There is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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Courage is resistence to fear -mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.
--Yoda
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others. (--in a letter to her husband, before her last flight)
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no
fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you
reject all help are you freed.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters-their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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"Speech in Paris, 1910"
Contribution #934
Perfect
Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
The
valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
Let
us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
As
a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves
disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows
of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart
here, and scorn to fly.
Courage
and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear
and obstacles vanish into air.
From the cowardice that dare not face new truth,
From the laziness that is contented with half truth,
From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth,
Good Lord, deliver us.
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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose the courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
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History will have to record
That the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition
Was not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people
But the appalling silence and indifference of the good.
Our generation will have to repent not
Only for the words and actions of the children of darkness
But also for the fears and apathy of the
children of light.
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
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Mignon McLaughlin
Contribution #518
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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A garden was the primitive prison till man with Promethean felicity and boldness luckily sinned himself out of it.
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
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B. C. Forbes
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Contribution #136
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece by thought, choice, courage and determination
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John Luther
http://www.thinkexist.com
Viewed on March 31, 2008
Contribution #119
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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What does courage look like in a person?
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