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I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
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Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
Relief has its place. But what the people need
is not relief, but release -
release of their own potential for development.
- Jimmy Yen
Outsiders can help, but insiders must do the job.
- Jimmy Yen
When we talk about democracy, if the people's
stomach is empty, democracy is also empty.
Democracy can not be installed by fiat;
it must be achieved by the people themselves.
- Jimmy Yen
True independence is not a gift to be received.
It can't be a hand-out to people.
It must be an achievement by the people.
- Jimmy Yen
The people are the foundation of the nation.
Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth:
the release of the strength of the common man.
- Jimmy Yen
A worker in the rural reconstruction must have:
The body of an athlete
The attitude of a teacher
The mind of a scientist
The heart of a missionary
The spirit of a crusader.
- Jimmy Yen
Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed
into practical do-how of the people.
- Jimmy Yen
The greatest challenge ...
is not the exploring of the mysteries of the outer space,
but the developing of the millions of God's forgotten children,
the developing peoples of the world,
so they can become our equal
and full partners to build a better world -
a world of freedom and brotherhood.
- Jimmy Yen
Life is an organic whole. The basic problems of the people -
poverty, ignorance, disease and civic inertia - interlock.
To address one problem, we must address all.
Hence our emphasis on an integrated program
of livelihood, education, health and self-government.
- Jimmy Yen
One way or another, we all have to find
what best fosters the flowering of our humanity
in this contemporary life,
and dedicate ourselves to that.
- Joseph Campbell
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett
Life is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Life ain't always beautiful,
but it's a beautiful ride.
- Gary Allen
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Recognize that "suffering is optional," and develop daily habits
that support living a joyful and productive life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is called genius is the
abundance of life and health.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Life just happens - enjoy it anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
A life lived Boldly and Joyfully is a Heroic Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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