Enviromental Quotes - Page 2

• Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspirational, Focus, Experience

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• All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Made, Bigs

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1962). “The essential Gandhi: an anthology”, Random House Inc

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• All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Art, Expression

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, Commitment, No Commitment

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Heart, Doubt

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1955). “Gift from the Sea”

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• If you have love you will do all things well.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Inspirational, Wells

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• It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Too Late, Knows

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• In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Law

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• We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Waiting, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.79, Vintage

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• Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Spring, Vehemence

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.464, Oxford University Press

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• The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

  Helen Caldicott

  Inspirational, Public Opinion, Unbeatable

  Helen Caldicott, Nancy Herrington, Nahum Stiskin (1982). “Nuclear madness: what you can do! : with a new chapter on Three Mile Island”, Bantam

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• I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things that make sense.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspirational, Roots, Challenges

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• Right now over 70 percent of the world population is convinced that something serious has to be done about the dangers facing the planet. ...Most of humanity wants to know how to make the change. It's one of those tipping-point times where things can change unbelievably fast.

  Paul Ray

  Inspirational, Humanity, Done

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• I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

  Barry Lopez

  Inspirational, Heart, Soul

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• Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Change, Men

  Norman Cousins (1953). “Who Speaks for Man?”, New York : Macmillan

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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

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• We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Positivity, Light

  Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

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• Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Buddhist, Real, Compassion

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• If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.505

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• Accept your genius and say what you think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.297, Harvard University Press

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• I change myself, I change the world.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Inspirational, Change, World

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• You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Moving

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• Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Peace, Mulling Over

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.38, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Vices, Failing

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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