Root Quotes

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The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others. — Dalai Lama
Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my… — Phineas Quimby
Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning. — Sengcan
If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil,… — Alfred de Musset
Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided… — Parker J. Palmer
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase.… — Ramana Maharshi
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it… — Paracelsus
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should… — Orson Pratt
Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs… — John Henry Newman
We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be… — Henry Ward Beecher
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who… — Henry David Thoreau
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others. — Mencius
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . .… — Thomas Carlyle
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we canâ€™t… — Rumi
Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root. — Loren Eiseley
Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation… — Rajneesh
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words… — Charles Kingsley
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the… — Mike Royko

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