But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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Bell Hooks
Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.
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Shannon L. Alder
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to...
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Aberjhani
[I]n Africa I was a member of a family–of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of...
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Daniel Quinn
There is more for us to gain through love than hate.
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Suzy Kassem
More Quotes By Leon Krier
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.
Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.
The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.
A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
