"Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return."

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Source : Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.146, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

Peace Pilgrim

#Love Quotes #Giving Quotes #Return Quotes

“Your time on this earth is limited, donâ€™t live someone else's life, live by your vision.”
“Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient peÂ cheurs; les autres peÂ cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.”
“Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.”
“...wingsâ€”-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.”
“Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are not necessarily wild-eyed. "Bit-twiddlers" are neither exactly proletariat nor bourgeoisie. They may not own the means of production in the sense that Marx argued, but they certainly do have significantly control over those means, in a more profound way than the term "symbols analysts" or "knowledge workers" captures. As a rough generalization, they value science and technological problem-solving elegance equally at least with profit.”
“People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.”
“We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams.”
“Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in consumption is required for governments and business to be considered successful. This is a form of insanity. Economics is at the heart of our destructive ways and our faith in it has blinded us”

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