"Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society."

-- John Ralston Saul

#Exercise Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Exaltation Quotes

“The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'.”

Source : "Redefining fatherhood: What it means to 'be a man' today" by Joy Jernigan, www.today.com. June 10, 2014.
“Europeans still read rather than watching TV or listening to their clergyman tell them how to vote. The European magazines are far superior to American magazines in content and readership, but TV is taking a bite out of circulation now even in Europe.”
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.”
“I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.”
“Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.”
“When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.”

Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.75, Macmillan
“One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.”

Source : "The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life" by Leo Babauta, 2009.

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