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Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
Prem Rawat
Life
Life Is A
Down
Difficult
Detached
Tide
Go
Up
Then
Float
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
Ramakrishna
God
You
Will
Whatever
Worship
More
Through
He
Name
Names
Him
Infinite
May
Form
Realise
Which
Forms
Them
It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.
Toussaint Louverture
Alone
Property
Man
Liberty
Black
Wish
White
Circumstance
Black Or White
Born
Adoption
Absolute
Red
Conceded
Fellow
Principle
Fellow Man
His
Us
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Vladimir Lenin
Country
Run
Able
Any
Should
Cook
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
William Penn
God
Obedience
Rebellion
Tyrants
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
William Pitt
Power Corrupts
Corrupts
Power
Unlimited
Unlimited Power
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
William Pitt
Law
Tyranny
Power
Minds
Unlimited
Unlimited Power
Those
Apt
Corrupt
Know
Lords
Begins
Ends
Where
Who
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Abu Bakr
Death
Man
Evil
Him
Survives
Dies
Done
Cursed
Who
Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
Ban Ki-moon
Terrorism
Peace
People
Prosperity
Significant
Security
Threat
Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
Ban Ki-moon
Future
Government
Will
Building
National
Society
Local
Local Government
Sector
Cities
Civil
Civil Society
Open
Dialogue
Private
Private Sector
Branches
Sustainable
Regional
Stakeholders
Poor
Engagement
Including
Among
Marginalized
Need
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
Bayard Rustin
Dignity
Human Being
Society
Individual
Him
Protest
Protesting
His
Very
Human
Refusal
Being
Acknowledge
Act
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
Bodhidharma
You
Learning
Reality
Mind
Both
Study
Without
Understand
Either
Use
Your
Using
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Brigham Young
Our
Ourselves
Willing
See
Never
Permit
Children
Anything
Should
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha
Man
Woman
People
World
Behavior
Other
Appropriate
Proper
Between
Piece
Pass
Clinging
His
Debris
Salutation
Person
Where
Midst
Each
Flood
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle
Politics
Country
Betray
Either
Prefer
Electorate
Necessary
If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
Chief Seattle
Buy
You
Water
Own
Air
How
Freshness
Them
Sparkle
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
Dalai Lama
Happiness
Mind
Sense
Other
More
Concern
Well-Being
Source
Compassionate
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
Dalai Lama
Reality
Everything
Way
Something
Absolute
Interdependent
Appearance
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama
Rest
Own
Analysis
Critical
Must
Individual
Always
Ultimate
Authority
Reason
In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
Dalai Lama
Work
Time
Sacrifice
Become
Must
He
He Or She
Prosperous
She
Lot
Very
Person
Order
Leisure
Leisure Time
Hard
Initially
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness
Angry
Man
Revenge
Before
Young
Military
Everyone
Relatively
Released
Nelson
Nelson Mandela
Reconciliation
About
Wing
He
Talking
Because
Arrested
Surprised
Mandela
Young Man
Founded
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Desmond Tutu
Love
God
Great
Religion
Love Is
Conflict
Too
Side
Any
Confined
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu
God
People
Soft Spot
Find
Spot
Surprised
His
Sinners
Quite
May
Heaven
Low
Standards
Soft
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Desmond Tutu
Others
He
Because
Person
Persons
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
Ezra Taft Benson
Time
Health
Good
Good Health
Age
Youth
Too
Distant
Temperance
Horizons
Physical
Spirit
Seem
Emerging
Attains
Adventure
Period
Caution
Timelessness
May
Body
Noticed
Ignore
Vigor
Awakening
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
Ezra Taft Benson
Happiness
You
Heart
Joy
Burden
Will
Own
Others
Lift
Lighter
Want
Then
Really
Your
Serve
Receive
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