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I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to… — Emma Thompson
The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties… — Charles William Eliot
An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew,… — Sigmund Freud
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty… — Elbert Hubbard
I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity. — Kin Hubbard
What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it. — Paul Newman
The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly love and altruism.… — Dalai Lama
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's… — Bill McKibben
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought,… — William Cobbett
I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye. — Harry S. Truman
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas… — Mary Caroline Richards
If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling… — Sam Keen
When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, "They were able to do… — John Leguizamo
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate… — Wilfred Trotter
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty… — James Hillman
How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every… — Ludwig van Beethoven
The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery… — Maria Montessori

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