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Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
Your life belongs to you, not to the demands of others, and when you see this fully, their demands are powerless.
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Citizens, in the future there shall be neither darkness nor thunderbolts, neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood... In the future no man will slay his fellow, the earth will be radiant, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, that day when all shall be concord, harmony, light, joy, and life.
A social deformity perhaps still more hideous than the evil rich: the evil poor
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Vast horizons lead the soul to general ideas; circumscribed horizons engender one-sided ideas.... General ideas are hated by one-sided minds: such is the struggle for progress.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
Law |
It is the duty of learned ones to ensure that the tribe of noble people keeps on growing. This they can do by means of proper guidance and tutelage.
Duty | Individual |
Move ahead. Give proper Nourishment to the body. May your hands,legs and body not be destroyed by death.
It is urgent that everyone should inquire into the true, the pure and the permanent; for there is at present a delusion about values. Even the leaders of people are hugging the false hypothesis that happiness can be had by means of wealth or health, housing or clothing, or the cultivation of skills in handicraft and manufacture.
Render every thought into a flower worthy to be held in His Fingers; render every deed into a fruit, full of the sweet juice of Love fit to be placed in His Hand; render every tear holy and pure, fit to wash His Lotus Feet.
Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.