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Bhagavad Gītā, simply known as Gita NULL
For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable.
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Children learn at their own pace, and it is a mistake to try to force them. The great incentive to effort, all through life, is experience of success after initial difficulties. The difficulties must not be so great as to cause discouragement, or so small as not to stimulate effort. From birth to death, this is a fundamental principle. It is by what we do ourselves that we learn.
Birth | Cause | Children | Death | Effort | Experience | Force | Life | Life | Mistake | Success | Learn |
Bhagavad Gītā, simply known as Gita NULL
For that which is born, death is certain; and for the dead, birth is certain. Therefore, grieve not over that which is unavoidable.
Bhagavad Gītā, simply known as Gita NULL
For certain is death for the born and certain is birth for the dead; therefore over the inevitable thou shouldst not grieve.
Birth | Death | Inevitable |
Dan Millman, born Daniel Jay Millman
The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
Dan Millman, born Daniel Jay Millman
This metaphor of a mountain path allows us to reconcile an ancient paradox about whether we truly have free will or whether our life is somehow predestined. At the moment of birth we are each given a specific inner mountain to climb, reflecting the force of predestination. How we climb and the time we take are up to us, reflecting the power of free will. In other words, we're given the playing field, but we choose how to play the game. We always have the power of choice, discipline, responsibility and commitment. No life path is harder or easier, better or worse, than any other, except to the degree we make it so.
Better | Birth | Choice | Commitment | Discipline | Force | Free will | Life | Life | Paradox | Play | Power | Predestination | Responsibility | Time | Will | Words |
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Children | Genius | Humanity | Hunger | Life | Life | Money | Sense | War | World |
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms ins not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Children | Genius | Humanity | Life | Life | Money | Sense | War | World |
In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
War in its fairest form implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
Consideration | Desire | Doctrine | Humanity | Justice | Law | Public |
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
The pact of Munich was a more fell blow to humanity than the atom bomb at Hiroshima. Suffocation of human freedom among a once free people, however quietly and peacefully accomplished, is more far-reaching in its implications and its effects on their future than the destruction of their homes, industrial centers and transportation facilities. Out of rubble heaps, willing hands can rebuild a better city; but out of freedom lost can stem only generations of hate and bitter struggle and brutal oppression.
Better | Freedom | Future | Hate | Humanity | Oppression | People | Struggle |
The preservation of peace and the improvement of the lot of all people require us to have faith in the rationality of humans. If we have this faith and if we pursue understanding, we have not the promise but at least the possibility of success. We should not be misled by promises. Humanity in all its history has repeatedly escaped disaster by a hair’s breadth. Total security has never been available to anyone. To expect it is unrealistic; to imagine that it can exist is to invite disaster.
Faith | History | Humanity | Improvement | Peace | People | Promise | Rationality | Security | Success | Understanding |
All success consists in this: you are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
Consciousness | Humanity | Success |
A feeling of utter worthlessness levels a man's attitude toward his fellow beings. He views the whole of humanity as being of one kind. He will despise equally those who love him and those who hate him, those who are noble and those who are mean, those who are compassionate and those who are cruel. It is as if the feeling of worthlessness cuts one off from the rest of mankind. One sees humanity as a foreign species.
Despise | Hate | Humanity | Love | Man | Mankind | Rest | Will |
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization.
Civilization | Humanity | Nations | Society | Society |
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.