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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. — Henry David Thoreau

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. — Bertrand Russell

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. — Jesus

Despair is an irrational position on a battlefield of unknown surprises with an army of unknown power. Keep fighting, and watch and see. — Caitlin Johnstone

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. —Mark Twain

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. — Bertrand Russell

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. — Malcolm X

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. — Leonard Cohen

Attention is energy. What you put your attention on, you get more of. Each one of us is a fountain of energy, a valve through which universal life energy is metered into the world, and we can each point our self at whatever we want to. We add life force to our surroundings—to everything we pay attention to. — Stephen Gaskin

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. — Mark Twain

Whether the object of your faith be real or false, you will nevertheless obtain the same effects. Faith produces miracles; and whether it is true or false faith, it will always produce the same wonders. — Philippus Paracelsus

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. — Bertrand Russell

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. — Bertrand Russell

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. — Henry David Thoreau

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. — Heraclitus

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. — Henry David Thoreau

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. — Henry David Thoreau

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. — Henry David Thoreau

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. — E.M. Forster

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

This possibility to change reality, which exists in everyone, represents the real freedom of every human individual. He has an enormous possibility to change his world view. — Albert Hofmann

If you could just stay focused on the right things, your life would stop feeling like a reaction to stuff that happens to you and become something that you create: not a series of accidents, but a work of art. — Winifred Gallagher

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. — Bertrand Russell

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. — Carl Jung

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. — Carl Jung

When people are being unjustly oppressed they should not let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression. — Malcolm X

Your time while asleep, when you leave this house and yet are still attached to it, is to be thought of as a sacred journey that you take daily to connect to the one universal subconscious mind and experience the bewildering wonder of what transpires there. — Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

A meditative state is pure perception: not being conceptual about the here-and-now. That’s what most Zen discipline is about: not past-tripping, not future-tripping, and not being conceptual in the here-and-now. — Stephen Gaskin

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. — Bertrand Russell

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. — R. Buckminster Fuller

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. — John Muir

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. — Bertrand Russell

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. — Mark Twain

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. — Lao Tzu

Do not give in too much to feelings. An overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable. — Albert Camus

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. — Henry David Thoreau

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. — Henry David Thoreau

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are. — Robert Pirsig

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. — Henry David Thoreau

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. — Bertrand Russell

One of the highest and Holiest religious experiences that is available to mankind is to get outside your head for a couple of seconds and realize that the sun doesn’t rise and set in your armpit. — Stephen Gaskin

The person who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist. — Bertrand Russell

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. — Bertrand Russell

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth. — Rupert Sheldrake

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner. — Washington Irving

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. — Richard P. Feynman

One of the reasons for the spiritual practice of non-attachment — trying not to be personally attached about your thing, or pain or whatever happens to you — is so that you school yourself so that nothing can happen to you from the outside that can make you lose your energy, because as long as you have your energy on, you can do it. — Stephen Gaskin

Unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth. — Rupert Sheldrake

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. — Henry David Thoreau

Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving til the right action arises by itself? — Lao Tzu

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. — Howard Zinn

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. — Rupert Sheldrake

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. — William Blake

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. — Carl Jung