Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 23
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Tacitus
But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be anything left.
Prince Philip
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Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.
Ray Noorda
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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.
If you learn to lead your life strategically and strongly, you can overcome the opposition. But running away, you never overcome anything. The pathway to enlightenment is for the warrior, the samurai.
Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into the nature of existence and helps a person prepare for complete enlightenment.
You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord.
The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.
Don Van Vliet
I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.
Elizabeth May
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
