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I can do no other than be reverent
before everything that is called life.
I can do no other than to have compassion
for all that is called life.
That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
- Albert Schweitzer
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
- Albert Schweitzer
By having a reverence for life,
we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Where there is reverence there is fear,
but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear,
because fear presumably has a wider
extension than reverence.
- Socrates
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man.
There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy,
and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
We CHOOSE our actions, thoughts, and feelings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
Life is in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
Our stories are the window to our emotions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
The world just IS, and we all have our stories about it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
At the Core of Our Suffering
are those Self-Imposed Limitations (Assumptions)
of which We are Completely Unaware.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners.
That is our permanent state.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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