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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth.
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I visualize therefore I become.
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The dream is illusion. The work is life.
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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. [...] And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
Forgiveness demands not Justice and Justice demands not Forgiveness.
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Contribution #3624
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
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Contribution #3494
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafarer on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
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But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!
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Contribution #2839
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Amos Bronson Alcott
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Contribution #456
To live is to choose. But to choose, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go, and why you want to get there.
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What does idealism look like in a person?
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