"I guess that one of the most important things I've learned is that nothing is ever completely bad. Even cancer. It has made me a better person. It has given me courage and a sense of purpose I never had before. But you don't have to do like I did...wait until you lose a leg or get some awful disease, before you take the time to find out what kind of stuff you're really made of. You can start now. Anybody can."

-- Terry Fox

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“As with other movements of the spirit, simplicity can be both a cause and an effect. As a spiritual path develops, so there is a yearning for a simpler life; as we simplify our life, so the inner voice becomes clearer.”

Source : Jennifer Kavanagh (2011). “Simplicity Made Easy”, p.9, John Hunt Publishing
“Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.”
“To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.”
“A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.”

Source : "Fictional character: Colonel Franz Von Waldheim". "The Train", www.imdb.com. 1964.
“Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.”
“This world is divided roughly into three kinds of nations: those that spend lots of money to keep their weight down; those whose people eat to live; and those whose people don't know where their next meal is coming from.”
“Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.”
“We are the star and the darkness it peirces”

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