Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
~ Albert Camus ~
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
~ Albert Camus ~
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Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve.
Each child is a new being, a potential prophet,
a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated
into the outer darkness.
~ R.D. Laing ~
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What do we teach our children? … We should say to each of them:
Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique …
You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven.
You have the capacity for anything.
~ Pablo Casals ~
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Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.
~ Louise Hart ~
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The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.
~ Chinese saying ~
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The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn
what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very
great deal to teach them.
~ Arnold Bennett ~
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The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on Earth.
~ Wilfred Grenfell ~
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Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life,
to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be.
I began to practice surrendering to the universe
and finding out what ‘it’ wanted me to do.
~ Shakti Gawain ~
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Walk boldly and wisely …
There is a hand above that will help you on.
~ Philip James Bailey ~
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world
shall emerge into the light.
~ Helen Keller ~
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The soul can split the sky in two, and let the face of God shine through.
~ Edna Saint Vincent Millay ~
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I have fought a good fight,
I have finished my course,
I have kept the faith.
~ Bible 2 Timothy 4:7 ~
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Believe in something larger than yourself.
~ Barbara Bush ~
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Without the assistance of the Divine Being … I cannot succeed.
With that assistance, I cannot fail.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
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Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness,
but because you deserve peace.
~ Jonathan Huie ~
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What one has, one ought to use;
and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
~ Cicero ~
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
~ Benjamin Disraeli ~
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You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.
~ James R. Cook ~
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We begin to die as soon as we are born,
and the end is linked to the beginning.
~ Marcus Manilius ~
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