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- When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying…
- The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our…
- We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for…
- It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings
- Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred,…
- While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a…
- I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.
- God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
- Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we…
- Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The…
- Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to…
- How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds…
- The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding…
- Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship is the act…
- When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
- It can take a lifetime for many people to come to terms with the freedom they truly have to think for themselves. But this path…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong