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• I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

  Josh Fox

  Motivation, Believe, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Eucharist is the full realization of the worship which humanity owes to God, and it cannot be compared to any other religious experience.... The risen Lord ... calls the faithful together to give them the light of His Word and the nourishment of His Body as the perennial sacramental wellspring of redemption. The grace flowing from this wellspring renews mankind, life, and history.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Light, Giving

  Pope John Paul II (2003). “Go in Peace: A Gift of Enduring Love”, p.139, Loyola Press

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• The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement.... They are the wellsprings of a free society.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Art, Independent, Opportunity

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• It's important to resolve to yourself, 'I will absolutely win!' Then this firm commitment will serve as the wellspring of great wisdom and courage that surges forth from within.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Commitment, Winning, Important

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• Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities that enable all living beings to obtain their food, to find shelter, to bring forth their young: to sing and dance and fly through the air and swim through the depths of the sea. This is the same inner tendency that evokes the insight of the poet, the skill of the artist and the power of the shaman.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Creativity, Artist

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.51, Crown

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• There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Cleansing, Transformation

  "The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life". Book by Deepak Chopra, 1995.

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• Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

  Robert Bly

  Sacred, Our Lives

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• None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.

  Steven Erikson

  Confusion, Secret, Crumbling

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• If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.

  William J. Brennan

  Government, Understanding, Different

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• The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world. These poems eddy and pool in unpredictable and often surprising ways, much as the mind moves in its twilight state between waking and sleep. The fluidity of their cadence and the luminosity of their imagery carry the reader to the wellspring of poetry itself, that deep delight of which Robert Penn Warren spoke, whose source is, in Soniat's words, 'beauty on its way to being mystery.'

  Kathryn Stripling Byer

  Girl, Moving, Twilight

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• Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Creativity, Self, Initiative

  "Centesimus Annus". Encyclical Letter by Pope John Paul II, w2.vatican.va. May 01, 1991.

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• My father has always prayed that his words would reflect God's standard of truth as the basis to claim, 'I have given them Your word' (John 17:14). In this book, I believe you will see that he has faithfully spoken God's Word that quenches the thirst of those seeking to draw from the wellsprings of Life. It is highly meaningful to see these statements now collected in one volume.

  Franklin Graham

  Meaningful, Father, Believe

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• Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

  Janine Benyus

  Habitat, Next, Revolution

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• In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.

  Manohla Dargis

  Baby, Loneliness, Sadness

  "A Youngster With a Key, a Word and a Quest" by Manohla Dargis, www.nytimes.com. December 22, 2011.

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• humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.

  Constance Rourke

  Fashion, Humor, Opposites

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• You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.

  Tony Kushner

  Zero, Drama, Creativity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

  James Rollins

  Inspiration, Reading, Fiction And Nonfiction

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• . . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and ethical. Environmentalism, in short, had become one version of nature religion in the lingering shadow of American transcendentalism.

  Catherine L. Albanese

  Religious, Passion, Shadow

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• Empathy is the wellspring of creativity.

  Ami Vitale

  Creativity, Empathy

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• The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

  Li Keqiang

  Self, Development, Wealth

  "China Plans to Reduce the State’s Role in the Economy" by David Barboza and Chris Buckley, www.nytimes.com. May 24, 2013.

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• History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

  Edward Gibbon

  Political, Experience, Should

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• Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness. Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Death, Stress, Doors

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• Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.

  Jacques Maritain

  Art, Lying, Mean

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• The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

  June Jordan

  Law, Justice, United States

  June Jordan (1992). “Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union”, Pantheon

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• Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality.  Be fueled by blood-red yeses.

  Rob Brezsny

  Blood, Vitality, Red

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.63, Frog Books

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