-Billy Idol [Attributed]
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1057 – “Laissez lire, et laissez danser; ces deux amusements ne feront jamais de mal au monde.”
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
-Voltaire
(more…)1055 – “There are two basic motivating forces: Fear and Love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
-John Lennon [Attributed]
(more…)1030 – “Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness. Your job is to simply do your work… sacredly, secretly, silently… and those with eyes to see and ears to hear, will respond.”
-anonymous
(more…)997 – Abiy Ahmed Ali on Our Lifelong Assignment to Make the World Better
“What we need to make our first and primary task is and where our struggle ought to concentrate on is upon ourselves. We have to cleanse our thoughts from hatred; different political views and religion are our blessings, we have to conduct them with love. Even if there are disagreements arising from our differences, we should side with justice rather than injustice and correct our moral lenses. Justice should be our main principle; love and respect for all human beings ought to be our moral compass. This is our eternal job that cannot be completed and a work that needs to be always performed. It is our lifelong assignment.”
-Abiy Ahmed Ali, 15th Prime Minister of Ethiopia
(more…)965 – “Climb mountains not so the world can see, but so you can see the world.”
-anonymous
(more…)898 – “Eu posso escolher ser uma vítima do mundo ou um aventureiro em busca de tesouros. É tudo uma questão de como eu vejo a minha vida.”
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.”
-Paulo Coelho
(more…)897 – First Stanza of William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence.”
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
-William Blake
(more…)864 – “The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday, and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”
–Neil deGrasse Tyson
834 – “The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn’t use their imaginations to think of the impossible.”
–Pete Seeger
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