"This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power."

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Source : James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

James Freeman Clarke

#Courage Quotes #Law Quotes #Faithful Quotes

“Wanting others to love you, you give away your heart. Wanting others to see you, you give away your eyes.”
“The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.”
“The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.”
“I have a theory about soul mates -- that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with life and have an intimate relationship with Spirit, that's when we meet our soul mate. It's as if God says, 'You're not meant to be alone on this earth. I just wanted you to love me first.”
“What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.”
“Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.”
“I know gay parents, and I support them and their families. They are good parents and loving families.”
“Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide open by colonization and by unequal treaties, it became an appendage of the "internal market" of Western capitalism.”

Source : "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 6, (p. 174), 1957.

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