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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be. — Judith Light
Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for… — Melody Beattie
We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards. — Edward de Bono
New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of… — Bill Maher
Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs… — Natalie Portman
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we… — Wilferd Peterson
Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original… — Dave Barry
Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of… — Alan Loy McGinnis
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds… — Marcel Proust
After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want. — Alan Sugar
The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they… — Bertrand Russell
Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband. — Arianna Huffington
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are… — Tertullian
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a… — Felix Frankfurter
Generally speaking, "an eye single to the glory of God" means sacrifice. It means that instead of endlessly doing what we want to do, we… — Hartman Rector, Jr.
I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best. — Esther Hicks
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take… — Liz Carpenter
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow… — Emile M. Cioran

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