Faith is the sturdiest the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest... strivings. It is the virtue of the storm just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine.
I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turns into a foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on...
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Osho
If other people do not understand our behavior–so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and...
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Erich Fromm
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
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Parker J. Palmer
Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Marcus Aurelius
Every being, created by God and unspoiled by man, is perfect, strictly defined and autonomous, entirely complete and at the same time with a built-in ability to grow and develop. This is the essence of its dignity and holiness. It is not an embodiment of...
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Danail Hristov
More Quotes By Ruth Benedict
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.
Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says "Yes" in spite of the anxiety of "No."Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality
