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• It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Falling In Love, Heart, Mean

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• The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.

  Pema Chodron

  Who We Are, Celebrate, Right Now

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Selfish, Practice, Ideas

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• What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

  George Washington

  Liberty, Triumph, Despotism

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: Life of Washington”, p.426

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• A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.

  James Madison

  Eye, Names, Heaven

  James Madison (1962). “Papers”

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• And as He has given, "In all thy getting, my Son, get understanding." This is putting proper emphasis in the proper places, and do not become sidetracked by things that would pertain to material or spiritual alone, or things of the body or things of the heavenly force. For you grow to heaven, you don't go to heaven. It is within thine own conscience that ye grow there. For there first must come peace and harmony within thy purpose, thy ideal, thy hopes, thy desires. Thy wishes even must be in harmony with thy ideal if you would make the experience in the earth of value to thee.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Son, Heaven

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• An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

  George Santayana

  Waiting, Realization, Prove It

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.26, Рипол Классик

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• An act of meditation is actually an act of faith--of faith in your spirit, in your own potential. Faith is the basis of meditation. Not of faith in something outside you--a metaphysical buddha, an unattainable ideal, or someone else's words. The faith is in yourself, in your own 'buddha nature.' You too can be a buddha, an awakened being that lives and responds in a wise, creative, and compassionate way.

  Martine Batchelor

  Faith, Wise, Creative

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• I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

  Learned Hand

  Agreement, Way, Dean

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Long, Philanthropy, Activism

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Plato, Achievement, Republic

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1963). “The Meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Flames, Sparks, Individual

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• Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
  
  Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

  Max Ehrmann

  Being Yourself, Exercise, Cynical

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.9, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Goal, Project Management

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• We talk of lost ideals, but perhaps they are not lost, only changed; when our ideal for ourselves and for our children becomes limited to prosperity and comfort, we get these, very likely, for ourselves and for them, but we get no more.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Comfort, Prosperity

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.562, Simon and Schuster

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• In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship -- around participation in public life.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Sleep, Cities, Shoes

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.136, Penguin

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• In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it is.

  Pema Chodron

  Opposites, Meditation, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

  Anne Frank

  Writing, Fantasy, My Thoughts

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.131, GENERAL PRESS

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• It takes a lot to motivate me to exercise but Physique 57 is the ideal workout, it's efficient, fun and targeted to get the results you didn't think were possible!

  Demi Moore

  Workout, Fun, Exercise

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• In our observances this Memorial Day, we honor the brave Americans who paid the highest price for their commitment to the ideals of peace, freedom, and justice. Our debt to them can be paid only by our own recommitment to preserving those same ideals.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Commitment, Justice

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• Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Cynical

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• Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

  Carl Jung

  Imagination, Fine, Normality

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• What is happening is not ideal. Sometimes nothing goes smoothly in the preparation for fights, and that is when you have to show what kind of champion you are and deal with whatever is put in front of you. This is just another obstacle, and if it does go to court then I will be as equally determined to overcome it.

  Ricky Hatton

  Motivation, Fighting, Champion

  "Court threat to Hatton unification bout". www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2005.

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• The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

  James A. Garfield

  College, Students, Ends

  Remark at Alumni Dinner in Delmonico's Restaurant, New York, December 28, 1871.

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• The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power over the livelihood of millions; the other, called 'government,' concerned with preaching and exemplification of spiritual ideals, so caught in a mass of theory, that when it wished to move in a practical world it had to do so by means of a sub rosa political machine.

  Thurman Arnold

  Spiritual, Moving, Mean

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