Archive for October, 2008

Thich Nhat Hanh on Nonviolence

“The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.”

 - Thich Nhat Hanh 

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Peace Pilgrim on Peace

“This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”  

 - Peace Pilgrim  

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Marilyn vos Savant on Perseverance

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” 

 - Marilyn vos Savant

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Joan Baez on Nonviolence

“I would say that I’m a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you…because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.”

 - Joan Baez

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Viktor Frankl on Freedom

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.”  

 - Viktor Frankl

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Julia Roberts on Love

“True love doesn’t come to you, it has to be inside you.”  

 -  Julia Roberts  

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Circumstance

“The first thing a great person does, is make us realise the insignificance of circumstance.”  

 -  Ralph Waldo Emerson  

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Viktor E. Frankl on Faith

“Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.”

 - Viktor E. Frankl

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Jalal ad-Din Rumi on Silence

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”  

 - Jalal ad-Din Rumi

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Federico Fellini on Language

“A different language is a different vision of life.” 

 - Federico Fellini

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