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Idealism means seeing the underlying goodness, beauty or promise in the world and then allowing this to shape our moods and actions. It is a deliberate choice to focus on the possible and to trust that these possibilities can become the dominant reality.


When we cultivate idealism, we focus on what is lovely and loveable in other people. Their imperfections and rough edges remind us simply that their lives works in progress. Our idealism helps them to see their good qualities and to grow them.


When idealism guides our lives, it melts away cynicism and despair, replacing them with light and hope.

Idealism

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Discernment - Forbearance - Grace - Idealism - Forgiveness - Justice
Forgiveness demands not Justice and Justice demands not Forgiveness.

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Courage - Discernment - Growth - Idealism - Resilience
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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Courage - Discernment - Growth - Idealism - Resilience
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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Idealism
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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Acceptance - Compassion - Humility - Idealism
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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Aspiration - Faith - Growth - Idealism - Vision
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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Idealism
Our ideals are our better selves.

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Amos Bronson Alcott
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Aspiration - Assertiveness - Idealism - Self-Discipline
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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