"Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition."

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Regis Debray

#Differences Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Harmony Quotes

“During 2007 "Not for Sale" was born from a problem I saw in Thailand. We established a basic level of care to the community there. Over the years our effective means of response has changed to help provide people with choices for the future.”
“Value everyone you know they might be gone tomorrow”
“Learn and think imperially.”
“Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not call men truly free when they are wicked and dissolute, since they are slaves to worldly passions. Freedom and happiness of soul consist in genuine purity and detachment from transitory things.”
“Vuillard balances too far on the side of fantasy... the people in his pictures are not properly defined. As he's an admirable draughtsman it must be that he just doesn't want to give them mouths and hands and feet.”
“Gisele Bundchen is a bit of a jock. 1 of my fave shoots is her playing football”
“'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did he say 'strive'? Because it is not possible for us to become holy and to be saints in an hour! We must therefore progress from modest beginnings toward holiness and purity. Even were we to spend a thousand years in this life we should never perfectly attain it. Rather we must always struggle for it every day, as if mere beginners.”

Source : Saint Symeon (the New Theologian) (1980). “Symeon New Theologian”, p.91, Paulist Press
“Philosophy is for the few.”

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