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• Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

  Patrick Geddes

  Winning, Ideas, Influence

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• It turns out I had this huge geeky safety net out there that I didn’t know about this whole time, made up of people who have been reading my comic for nine years but never contacted me.

  Rich Burlew

  Reading, Years, People

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• Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

  Shana Alexander

  Rocks, Two, Hammocks

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence' or 'virtue,' but has a deeper meaning — something closer to 'expressing the highest version of ourselves.' When we're showing up fully moment to moment, there's no room for regret/anxiety/disillusionment, just a whole lot of happiness. Here's to getting our areté on!

  Brian Johnson

  Regret, Thinking, Meaning Something

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• That changes your whole perception of the film, your perception of the ending...The challenge for us, especially with the Lord of the Rings is how do we deliver that one piece of information that makes you look at the films differently?

  Henry Jenkins

  Challenges, Perception, Information

  Henry Jenkins (2006). “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide”, p.123, NYU Press

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• To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion.

  Isaac Watts

  Air, Inward, Dull

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• There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Country, Lonely, Cities

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.1, U of Nebraska Press

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• Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se; some set out to change their own worlds. And in so doing, they often change the way one person, or a few people, or whole communities, or entire nations or the world thinks and operates in some significant way.

  Anita Roddick

  Life, Thinking, People

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• Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Selfish, Heart

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 18, 2013

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• What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work in accordance with the whole A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true humility So whether you're a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path If you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours

  Laozi

  Life, Humility, Men

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• Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Dream, Truth

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• If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Giving, Contradiction

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then stop at that. At first putting forth great effort to be sure that you have grasped the basics, then practicing so that they may come to fruition is something that will never stop for your whole lifetime. Do not rely on following the degree of understanding that you have discovered, but simply think, "This is not enough."

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life, Mistake, Thinking

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events--that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of our own bodies--and will end in destroying the very environment from which we emerge and upon which our whole life depends.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Nature, Attitude

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.9, Souvenir Press

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• What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinking about anything else. We're not thinking about any kind of power. We're not thinking about any kind of struggles. We're not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That's not what we want. Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life. A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.

  Jerry Garcia

  Life, Peace, Hurt

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• In order to develop love - universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Life, Dark, Light

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

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• Silently a flower blooms,
  In silence it falls away;
  Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
  The world of the flower, the whole of
  the world is blooming.
  This is the talk of the flower, the truth
  of the blossom;
  The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.

  Zenkei Shibayama

  Life, Truth, Flower

  Zenkei Shibayama (2012). “A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays”, p.110, Tuttle Publishing

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• Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Song, Women

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Miscellanies: Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.574

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• Goodwill to others is constructive thought. It helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes vour blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life. The more such thought you attract to you, the more life you will have.

  Prentice Mulford

  Life, Real, Blood

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• It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into space. But while we're living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die. This energy, this life force, creates the whole world.

  Pema Chodron

  Life, Fire, Air

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• There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Life, Fall, Warrior

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.15, Bottom of the Hill

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• Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Uplifting, Book

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• . . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Dream, Prayer

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

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• The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die.

  Laozi

  Life, Self, Ego

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction.

  John McNally

  Life, Power, Emotional

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