Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, [...]
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You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. ~ Abraham Lincoln
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. ~ Karl Marx
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What, now, is the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering? It is craving…But where does this craving arise and take root? Wherever in the world there are delightful and pleasurable things, there this craving rises and take root. Eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind are delightful, pleasurable, there this craving arises and takes [...]
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. – Thomas Aquinas
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Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. – Edward Morgan Forster
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