The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself. ~Marion Woodman
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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