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- The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change…
- Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the idea…
- What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive…
- Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in…
- Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance…
- Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives.…
- Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students…
- There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass…
- ... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that…
- We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat…
- Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get…
- Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the…
- I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
- We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we…
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