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Love is the Root of Divine Providence. Every virtue is the fruit of Love. Through Love we receive every good and perfect thing. God is Love.
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Integrated Gospel Perceptions
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There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. Nelson Mandela
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.
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Action is the anidote to despair.
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"Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way." — Abraham Lincoln
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Contribution #3801
Do not take lightly small good deeds,
Believing they can hardly help.
For drops of water, one by one,
In time can fill a giant pot.
Each of us can become a blessed channel of peace for the healing of Earth's wounds: We can awaken from apathy and find creative, non-violent ways to transform the abuses rampant in today's world.
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Peace Planet: Light for Our World
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Contribution #3704
If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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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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Success is the process of having a wonderful experience going for, getting, and having what you want.
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
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The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.
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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page Page 518
Published by Christian Science Publishing Society
, Boston, USA
, First published 1875, Copyright renewed 1934
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Contribution #3588
When we have the courage to speak out – to break our silence – we inspire the rest of the "moderates" in our communities to speak up and voice their views.
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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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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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Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
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Contribution #3442
If the village elders don't provide the scripts (for youth success), the village idiots will.
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President, Morehouse College (CNN/Essence - Reclaiming the Dream) July 31, 2009
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Contribution #3431
The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose.
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Contribution #3415
"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth - not going all the way, and not starting."- Buddha
When speaking from an active place, make sure that it is for the purpose of the action and not simply to be noticed for speaking.
Knowledge, Action and Devotion are complementary to each other.
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From the discourses of Rev. Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Contribution #3387
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. -Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE)
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done — that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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Letter to "Micheal" (16 February 1970) Micheal was a 10 year old boy who had inquired in a letter as to whether Fuller was a "doer" or a "thinker".
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Contribution #3198
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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Quotes of the Day"
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Contribution #3141
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Edmund Burke
Contribution #3049
One evening a Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 wolves inside of us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?" The Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
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
We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.
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Oprah Winefry Show, 2002.
Contribution #2858
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
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Contribution #2726
They should champion their one true God, exalted be He, through the hosts of forbearance, of submission, of an upright character, of goodly deeds, and of the choicest and most refined words.
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Crisis and Victory
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Contribution #2712
What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal? Unless these thoughts are translated into the world of action, they are useless. The wrong in the world continues to exist just because people only talk of their ideals, and do not strive to put them into practice. If actions took the place of words, the world’s misery would very soon be changed into comfort.
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Paris Talks, p. 16
Contribution #2711
This people need no weapons of destruction, inasmuch as they have girded themselves to reconstruct the world. Their hosts are the hosts of goodly deeds, and their arms the arms of upright conduct, and their commander the fear of God.
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Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
p. 74
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Contribution #2709
The fruits of the tree of man have ever been and are goodly deeds and a praiseworthy character.
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Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
p. 26
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Contribution #2708
Let your acts be a guide unto all mankind, for the professions of most men, be they high or low, differ from their conduct. It is through your deeds that ye can distinguish yourselves from others. Through them the brightness of your light can be shed upon the whole earth.
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Gleanings from the Writings of Bahu'u'llah
p. 305
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Contribution #2706
Help ye the one true God, exalted be His glory, by your goodly deeds, by such conduct and character as shall be acceptable in His sight.
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Gleainings from the Writings of Bahu'u'llah
p. 272
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Contribution #2705
Their deeds, alone, testify to the truth of their words.
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Gleanings from the Writings of Bahu'u'llah
p. 180
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Contribution #2704
O people of God! Do not busy yourselves in your own concerns; let your thoughts be fixed upon that which will rehabilitate the fortunes of mankind and sanctify the hearts and souls of men. This can best be achieved through pure and holy deeds, through a virtuous life and a goodly behavior. Valiant acts will ensure the triumph of this Cause, and a saintly character will reinforce its power.
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Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah
pp.93-94
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Contribution #2703
O Son of My Handmaiden! Guidance hath ever been given by words, and now it is given by deeds. Every one must show forth deeds that are pure and holy, for words are the property of all alike, whereas such deeds as these belong only to Our loved ones. Strive then with heart and soul to distinguish yourselves by your deeds. In this wise We counsel you in this holy and resplendent tablet.
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The Hidden Words
Persian
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Contribution #2702
O children of Adam! Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory. Strive that your deeds may be cleansed from the dust of self and hypocrisy and find favor at the court of glory; for ere long the assayers of mankind shall, in the holy presence of the Adored One, accept naught but absolute virtue and deeds of stainless purity. This is the day-star of wisdom and of divine mystery that hath shone above the horizon of the divine will. Blessed are they that turn thereunto.
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The Hidden Words
Persian
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Contribution #2701
O My Friends! Quench ye the lamp of error, and kindle within your hearts the everlasting torch of divine guidance. For ere long the assayers of mankind shall, in the holy presence of the Adored, accept naught but purest virtue and deeds of stainless holiness.
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The Hidden Words
Persian
#35
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Contribution #2700
O Son of Dust! Verily I say unto thee: Of all men the most negligent is he that disputeth idly and seeketh to advance himself over his brother. Say, O brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.
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The Hidden Words
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Contribution #2699
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.
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Talmud
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Contribution #2617
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
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Sermon - October 15, 1826
Contribution #2388
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
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Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
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There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
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By the choices and acts of our lives, we create the person that we are and the faces that we wear. By the choices and acts of our lives we give to the world wherein our lives are lived, hoping that our neighbors will find our contributions to be of worth, and hoping that the world will be a little more gracious for our time in it.
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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not.
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The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.
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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.
It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.
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Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.
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Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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The Voice of the Master
by trans. Anthony R. Ferris
Page 63
Published by Citadel Press
, New York
, 1958
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Contribution #2148
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
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Let the beauty we love be what we do; there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Action expresses priorities.
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
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Talmud
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Contribution #2029
Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what is the use of seeing?
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God does not have hands, we do. Our hands are God’s. It is up to us what God will see and hear, up to us, what God will do. Humanity is the organ of consciousness of the universe ... Without our eyes the Holy One of Being would be blind.
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Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.
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Contribution #1864
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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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
Since everything is a reflection of our minds,
everything can be changed by our minds.
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1450
You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.
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Brilliance: Uncommon Voices From Uncommon Women
by Dan Zadra and Susan Scott
Page 13
Published by Compendium, Inc.
, Lynwood, WA
, 2005
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Contribution #1421
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.
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Talmud
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Contribution #1391
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up
Don't give up the fight.
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Contribution #1390
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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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking him if there's anything you can do. Think of something appropriate and do it.
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
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The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.
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The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.
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El Divino Impaciente
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Contribution #1194
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Contribution #1111
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion, compassion, intuition, and irrational thinking.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
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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.
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 one could have dreamed would have come his or her way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
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Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
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Tyron Edwards
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Contribution #726
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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Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds, his wisdom does not endure.
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Talmud
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Contribution #548
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Action for Animals pamphlet
Contribution #537
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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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
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The Lorax
by Dr. Seuss
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Contribution #514
Compassion is not just being sentimental and feeling with someone, but seeking to change the situation. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action!
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
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We are the ones we have been waiting for.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
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I John
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Contribution #32
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
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I say that religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.
What does action look like in a person?
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