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• Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the world knows all too well is also rooted in our own impulses. Through compassion we also sense our hope for forgiveness in our friends' eyes and our hatred in their bitter mouths. When they kill, we know that we could have done it; when they give life, we know that we can do the same. For a compassionate person nothing human is alien: no joy and no sorrow, no way of living and no way of dying.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Eye, Compassion

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• Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

  Celia Rees

  Lying, Mind, Way

  Celia Rees (2010). “Witch Child”, p.19, A&C Black

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• I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a small house, grass, animals, books, pictures, music. And out of this, the expression of this, I want to be writing (Though I may write about cabmen. That’s no matter.) But warm, eager, living life — to be rooted in life — to learn, to desire, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Live Life, Book, Writing

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1136, Delphi Classics

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• we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Vision, Needs, Approval

  Sue Monk Kidd (1987). “God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Long, Feelings, Weight

  John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (2015). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.126, University of Chicago Press

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• Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Vision, Criticism

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• How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.

  George Eliot

  Spring, First Love, Boys

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.445, Delphi Classics

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• Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human — which means its a superpower all humans posses.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Art, Mean

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.239, Profile Books

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• The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Play, Suffering, Directors

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• Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for $31,500. He seemed to answer to a deeply rooted, distinctly American mythology, in which decency and common sense triumphed over cosmopolitan guile, and in which an idealized past held firm against a rootless and too hurriedly changing present.

  Roger Lowenstein

  Home, Past, Common Sense

  Roger Lowenstein, (2010). “Buffett”, p.372, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do'Urden

  R. A. Salvatore

  Growth, Drizzt Do Urden, Drizzt

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• The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

  Victor Hugo

  Needs, Bread, Ideals

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2640, BookCaps Study Guides

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• When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of mistaking it for a commodity, or a fuel, or a collection of chemical nutrients. No, in the eye of the cook or the gardener ... this food reveals itself for what it is: no mere thing but a web of relationships among a great many living beings, some of them human, some not, but each of them dependent on each other, and all of them ultimately rooted in soil and nourished by sunlight.

  Michael Pollan

  Eye, Cooking, Alive

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• The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.

  Anne Rice

  World, Natural, Persons

  Anne Rice (2012). “The Wolf Gift”, p.398, Random House

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• If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle, lonely and confused. So like children, we begin again... to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. (from the poem "How Sure Gravity's Law")

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Lonely, Children, Confused

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• When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

  Anais Nin

  Desire, Feels

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• A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a moment of breathlessness, Meg was able to open herself to the song of the farae, these strange creatures who were Deepened, rooted, yet never seperated from each other, no matter how great the distance. We are the song of the universe. We sing with the angelic host. We are musicians. The farae and the stars are the singers. Our song orders the rhythm of creation.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Song, Stars, Distance

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.253, Macmillan

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• Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Collective Unconscious, Males, Domination

  "On male domination" by Pierre Bourdieu, mondediplo.com. October 1998.

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• The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

  Carl Jung

  Psychology, Individual, Mass

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

  Vita Sackville-West

  Love, Marriage, Passion

  Victoria Sackville-West, Vita Sackville-West (1985). “No Signposts in the Sea”, Penguin Group USA

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• The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I’ve let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me.

  Richard Nelson

  Eye, Thinking, Long

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• If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.

  Ethan Hawke

  Fun, Mistake, Jealous

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• No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

  Adrienne Rich

  Passion, Animal, Air

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Pain, Parenting

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• As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Men, Age, May

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.105, John Wiley & Sons

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