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• We have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures of power, indescribably complicated problems to solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether and succumb to fear and impotence in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is as possible and as urgent to put an end to war and violence between nations as it is to put an end to poverty and racial injustice.

  ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes

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• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  ~ Pablo Picasso quotes

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• The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.

  ~ Chofetz Chaim quotes

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• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

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• "One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin."

  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

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• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

  ~ Rita Mae Brown quotes

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• Picasso's mother held great ambitions for him when he was a child. She instructed him: If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as Pope." Instead," Picasso quipped, "I became a painter and became a Picasso."

  ~ Picasso quotes from The Gifted Adult; p. 138

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• Adults remain social animals: they continue to require a source of stabilization outside themselves. That open-loop design means that in some important ways, people cannot be stable on their own--not should or shouldn't be, but can't be.

  ~ Drs. Lewis, Amini and Lannon quotes from A General Theory of Love

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• I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend or an enemy, as long as that person wishes for peace and happiness and wishes to overcome suffering, then on that basis we develop genuine concern for his or her problem. This is genuine compassion. Usually when we are concerned about a close friend, we call this compassion. This is not compassion; it is attachment. Even in marriage, those marriages that last only a short time do so because of attachment – although it is generally present – but because there is also compassion. Marriages that last only a short time do so because of a lack of compassion; there is only emotional attachment based on projection and expectation. When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one’s projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears – because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment – and similarly, to have anger without hatred. Therefore we need to clarify the distinctions between compassion and attachment, and between anger and hatred. Such clarity is useful in our daily life and in our efforts towards world peace. I consider these to be basic spiritual values for the happiness of all human beings, regardless of whether one is a believer or a nonbeliever.

  ~ The Dalai Lama quotes

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• It is because we don’t know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human. We are saved, we are liberated and enlightened, by perceiving the hitherto unperceived good that is already within us, by returning to our eternal ground and remaining where, without knowing it, we have always been.

  ~ Aldous Huxley quotes from The Perennial Philosophy

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