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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
by E. F. Schumacher

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher

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It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
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Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
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We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
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"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
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We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
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All our dreams can come true,
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
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We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
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What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
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The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
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As we work to create light for others,
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never from demanding that others live simply -
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
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No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
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We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
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Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
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It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
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And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
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We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
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How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
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NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
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Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
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Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
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Only when life is difficult,
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The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
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Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
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Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
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We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
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like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
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We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
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If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
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At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius

The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau

Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
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We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
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Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
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Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
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There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
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Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
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The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
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What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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How we spend our days is of course
how we spend our lives.
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Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
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See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
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Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
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We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
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Our mettle is tested by storms,
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It's okay to make mistakes.
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