The longer I live, the more deeply l learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- Topic: Acceptance, Change
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.
The only way to live, is knowing you’re going to die. If you're afraid to die, you'll never be able to live.
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The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
True life is lived with tiny changes occur.
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.
I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.
You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
