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• I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.

  Bill Watterson

  Animal, Ideas, Imagination

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• Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any
  conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into
  weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the
  ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Vitality, Weak

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.798, GENERAL PRESS

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• Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Patterns, Causes

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
  If we were born to paint, it’s our job to become a painter.
  If we were born to raise and nurture children, it’s our job to become a mother.
  If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mother, Jobs, Children

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• Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Space, Seductive, May

  Kenneth Minogue (2000). “Politics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.17, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects; we too could learn how to know the world and reshape our environment to meet our own needs.

  Don Cupitt

  Religious, Ideas, Having Fun

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• The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Life, Relationship, Family

  Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Believe, Together We Can, Ties

  "A President Like My Father" by Caroline Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. January 27, 2008.

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• The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future

  William Jennings Bryan

  Sight, Earth, Pages

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Darkness, Mind

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• God has a purpose in every life, and when the soul is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal.

  F.B. Meyer

  Blessed, Soul, Purpose

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• Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Objectivity, Form, Finite

  H. P. Blavatsky (2008). “The Origins of Self-Consciousness in The Secret Doctrine”, p.71, Theosophy Trust Books

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• The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.

  Paulo Mendes da Rocha

  Opportunity, Doe, Realizing

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• If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certain] — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.

  Savitri Devi

  Strong, Order, Things Change

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• Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.

  Katharine Jefferts Schori

  Mean, Exercise, Self

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• With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.

  Zoroaster

  Mind, Path, Enlightened

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• So often we wait for the climate and conditions in life to be perfect before we feel safe enough to step forward, trust, and be our authentic selves. What we don't realize is that in order to create the ideal climate we are waiting for, we must be authentic first.

  Sonia Choquette

  Self, Order, Perfect

  Sonia Choquette (2008). “The Time Has Come... to Accept Your Intuitive Gifts!”, p.137, Hay House, Inc

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• The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

  Milton Sapirstein

  Marriage, Mother, Fiction

  Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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• By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same preoccupations, the same ideas, the same ideals, and the same quest for a meaning for this life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, People, Quests

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• If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true happiness and joy. Faith does not run counter to your highest ideals; on the contrary, it elevates and perfects those ideals. Dear young people, do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love, do not be content with anything less than Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Running, People, Joy

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• Integrity is the integration of ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs-and behavior. When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match up, we have integrity.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Integrity, Practice, Belief

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• Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement, or more anger to what’s already here. It’s becoming essential that we learn how to relate sanely with difficult times. The earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy and discover our innermost essence. This is the best way that we can benefit others.

  Pema Chodron

  Essence, Luxury, Joy

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• None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Perfect, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.7, editionNEXT.com

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• In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and his favorite notions of personal hygiene. Everybody knew that his class was liable to degenerate into a demonstration of some practical points about rowing, with Buggy sitting on the table and showing us how to pull an oar.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Religious, Teaching

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Essentials, Enforcement, Coercion

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