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Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people; before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children; before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about it through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I’m not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.

Cory Booker  (via wethinkwedream)

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Literally, “anarchy” means “without an archon.” Archons were leaders of ancient Greek city-states. But being without a leader — without an archon — is not necessarily to be without law. The vast bulk of law emerges not from the commands of sovereign rulers but, rather, from the everyday interactions of countless ordinary people as they exchange, intermingle, cooperate, and come into conflict with each other. Only the most naïve social creationist equates the dictates of strongmen (or of groups of strongmen, such as assemble in legislatures) with “law.

Don Boudreaux (via anarchei)

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Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it can’t be challenged.

Almost all human progress is driven by people who stood up and said ‘I disagree’ with this idea that society at the time considered to be the most precious.’


Glenn Greenwald (via elige)

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Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

Alan Cohen (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Gloria Steinem (via saras-scrapbook)

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People’s destinies & choices in life have little do with the surface realities of a situation, & more to do with an intense inner drama.

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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Dalai Lama XIV  (via memonite)

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Joan of Arc came back as a little girl in Japan, and her father told her to stop listening to her imaginary friends.

Elvis was born again in a small village in Sudan, he died hungry, age 9, never knowing what a guitar was.

Michelangelo was drafted into the military at age 18 in Korea, he painted his face black with shoe polish and learned to kill.

Jackson Pollock got told to stop making a mess, somewhere in Russia.

Hemingway, to this day, writes DVD instruction manuals somewhere in China. He’s an old man on a factory line. You wouldn’t recognise him.

Gandhi was born to a wealthy stockbroker in New York. He never forgave the world after his father threw himself from his office window, on the 21st floor.

And everyone, somewhere, is someone, if we only give them a chance.


 Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via creatingaquietmind)

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Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Dalai Lama XIV (via kari-shma)

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The opposite of war is not peace. The opposite of war is creation. Not doing bad isn’t doing good. Not doing bad is doing nothing.

Patrick Maurer (via clntrn)

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Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

Osho  (via radiyum)

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If you can’t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I’d rather hear a girl laugh well than try to turn me on with long, silent, soulful, secret looks. If you can laugh with a woman, everything else falls into place.

Richard Burton (via creatingaquietmind)

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Interrupt your thoughts of “I should”, with your action of doing.

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