Causes Quotes - Page 12

• It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers with crass messages every hour of the day, but it's a tinge embarrassing, it brings up some shyness, it seems an intrusion, it risks rejection to share real heartfelt commitments. It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.

  Donella Meadows

  Friends, Dream, Real

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• Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Dream, Eagles

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• A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Memories, Drama

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• I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.

  Ornette Coleman

  New Orleans, Hair, Long

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• But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Falling In Love, Hate, Feelings

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• The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Love, Fall, Desire

  "Women Who Run With the Wolves". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, September 17, 1992.

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• We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or non-existence.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Absence, Existence

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• Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.

  John Welwood

  Love, Trust, Knowing

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• If I could tell the world just one thing
  It would be that we're all OK
  And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
  And useless in times like these
  I won't be made useless
  I won't be idle with despair
  I will gather myself around my faith
  For light does the darkness most fear
  
  My hands are small, I know
  But they're not yours, they are my own
  But they're not yours, they are my own
  And I am never broken

  Jewel

  Love, Light, Times Like These

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• The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

  Aristotle

  Love, Finals, Produce

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• I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Love, Jealous, Fire

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• The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Love, Mean, Pleasure

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• Pimpin' ain't dead 'cause I be the life line.

  Lil Wayne

  Pimp, Lines, Life Line

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• Understand that relationships are more important than contracts. Business deals are relationships between people. The signed piece of paper is important, but it's merely the result of the relationship, not the cause. If the relationship crumbles, the contract won't save you, although it could be very lucrative for your lawyer.

  Steve Pavlina

  Business, People, Important

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• Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Helping Others, Suffering

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2006). “How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Order, Law

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• Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Produce, Given

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Nature, Cheer

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And, and...and sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick, so why don't you sit. 'Cause I may never be here again.'

  Julia Roberts

  Jobs, Orchestra, May

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• Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Hate, Justice

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.

  Ingrid Law

  Heartache, Useless, Leaving Me

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• Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Confusion, Anxiety, Feelings

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.58, Penguin

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• The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Law, Competition, Finals

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.427, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

  Robert Breault

  Making A Difference, World, Helping

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• I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Long, Mind

  Acceptance Speech at Hyannis Armory, Hyannis, Massachusetts, www.jfklibrary.org. November 09, 1960.

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