Root Quotes

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The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering… — Ram Dass
The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder… — D. H. Lawrence
For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being… — Hermann Hesse
For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves. — Confucius
I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out… — Swami Vivekananda
The facts are in, the science is beyond question. Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most of… — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of… — Baal Shem Tov
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of… — Michael Atiyah
Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France.… — Jean Reno
Bear in mind the simple rule, X squared to the power of two minus five over the seven point eight three times nineteen is approximately… — Eric Idle
Thereâ€™s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil. — Gene Simmons
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects,… — Pope John Paul II
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and… — Immanuel Kant
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or… — Jacques Maritain
Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil. — Richard Dawkins
Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit, the flower, the… — Peter Kreeft
Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends deep into the earth. The… — Daisaku Ikeda
Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. Itâ€™s also the root of a lot of bad art. — Michael Gungor
If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and… — Eleanor Clift

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