"Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment."

-- Morihei Ueshiba

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“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.”
“If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.”
“If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.”
“I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.”
“Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.”
“We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.”
“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
“For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician not even a church politician.”

Source : "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 223), 1984.

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