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The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon…

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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by…
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,…
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps…
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is…
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of…

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Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us. — Lawren Harris
When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really… — Dorothy Maclean
The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of… — Jean Shinoda Bolen
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco
Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return. — Lewis B. Smedes
It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our… — Elton John
Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors… — Eric Allen
Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct. — Jean-Philippe Rameau
When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have… — Jack Kornfield
We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us… — A.S.A. Harrison
It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all.… — Cheri Huber

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