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Quote image featuring Eduardo Galeano's message about living what you writeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flower that smells rather than the chronicler of the aroma. There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write." Eduardo Galeano
Hannah Arendt quote about thinking, morality, and preventing catastrophesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never been seen before. The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. And I hope that thinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down." Hannah Arendt
Meditation and mindfulness quote graphic by Thích Nhất HạnhCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out. Breathing in, I am grateful for this moment. Breathing out, I smile. Breathing in, I am aware of the preciousness of this day. Breathing out, I vow to live deeply in this day." Thích Nhất Hạnh
Dan Stevens quote about adoption, gratitude, and questioning everythingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything." Dan Stevens
Gratitude and appreciation quote attributed to VoltaireCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." Voltaire
Eugen Rosenstock quote about the origin of the Church and the importance of lived experienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart." Eugen Rosenstock
Quote image featuring Eduardo Galeano's message about living what you writeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flower that smells rather than the chronicler of the aroma. There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write." Eduardo Galeano
Hannah Arendt quote about thinking, morality, and preventing catastrophesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never been seen before. The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. And I hope that thinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down." Hannah Arendt
Meditation and mindfulness quote graphic by Thích Nhất HạnhCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out. Breathing in, I am grateful for this moment. Breathing out, I smile. Breathing in, I am aware of the preciousness of this day. Breathing out, I vow to live deeply in this day." Thích Nhất Hạnh
Dan Stevens quote about adoption, gratitude, and questioning everythingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything." Dan Stevens
Gratitude and appreciation quote attributed to VoltaireCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." Voltaire
Eugen Rosenstock quote about the origin of the Church and the importance of lived experienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart." Eugen Rosenstock
Aldous Huxley quote image about intelligence, humanity, and personal qualitiesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb." Aldous Huxley
Inspirational quote by Mark Twain about exploring, dreaming, and discoveringCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
Inspirational gratitude and life quote by Neale Donald WalschCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The day will come when you will review your life and be thankful for every minute of it. Every hurt, every sorrow, every joy, every celebration, every moment of your life will be a treasure to you, for you will see the utter perfection of the design. You will stand back from the weaving and see the tapestry, and you will weep at the beauty of it." Neale Donald Walsch
Freedom and spiritual growth quote by Russell M. NelsonCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. You are never too young to learn, never too old to change. Your yearnings to learn and change come from a divinely instilled striving for eternal progression. Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity." Russell M. Nelson
Epiktet quote about improvement through inner attitudeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other" Epiktet
Freedom and spiritual growth quote by Russell M. NelsonCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. You are never too young to learn, never too old to change. Your yearnings to learn and change come from a divinely instilled striving for eternal progression. Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity." Russell M. Nelson
Murray Rothbard quote about freedom and human developmentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human." Murray Rothbard
Respect and love quote image by Erich FrommCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me." Erich Fromm
David Icke quote about fear, survival, and the structure of societyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If you look at the way society is structured , it is structured to keep people overwhelmingly in a state of fear and always trying to survive, in terms of physically, in terms of terror, in terms of financially, the credit crunch, rising food prices; all this is survive, survive, survive." David Icke
Ludwig von Mises quote image about capitalism, socialism, and social organizationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism." Ludwig von Mises
Albert Jay Nock quote image about economic laws, prosperity, deficits, and indebtednessCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they are prosperous if the boom starts, and that deficits and indebtedness are merely signs of how prosperous they are." Albert Jay Nock
Ludwig von Mises quote about satisfying the public through the market system and equality under the lawCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire." Ludwig von Mises
Allan Bloom quote about rock music and its influence on childrenCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later." Allan Bloom