Because our civilization is ...

Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.

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Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.
 T. Harv Eker
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.