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What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
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The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
What are the proper grounds for joy?
Is it circumstance which will
determine the stature of my spirit?
Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice -
in the face of any event - for joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The Creator has not thought proper
to mark those in the forehead
who are of stuff to make good generals.
We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold,
and then let them learn the trade
at the expense of great losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment
without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania.
Appropriate rituals channel your emotions
and life energy toward the light.
Without the discipline to practice them,
you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.
- Lao Tzu
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
than it should be stifled by dry rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
- Jack London
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I've always believed that if done properly,
armed robbery doesn't have to be an unpleasant experience.
- the movie Thelma & Louise
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement.
Properly understood and applied,
it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Instead of being presented with stereotypes
by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity
to learn that within each range,
some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
- Margaret Mead
Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
Education is a method whereby
one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,
I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
When our thoughts - which bring actions -
are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white,
we are in a living hell.
That is as real as hell will ever be.
- George Washington Carver
I am free of prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
- W. C. Fields
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken
Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious
throughout our society -
that women are now providing
all types of skills in every profession.
The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside.
The bravest man is who can see the world
without the barrier of the mind, just as it is.
It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful.
There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior -
there are no distinctions.
- Osho
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,
and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things
cannot be acquired by vegetating
in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Mark Twain
Today's acorns grow into the oak trees of thirty years hence.
But what acorns are we sowing today?
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of prejudice or hatred would grow into.
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of pollution can become.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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