"The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling."

-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Powerful Quotes #Heart Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.119, Macmillan
“If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage...we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.”
“As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.”
“Art and morality are, with certain provisosâ€¦one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”

Source : 1959 'The Sublime and the Good'.
“I hope you learn to love yourself for who you are and what you look like, and how you were born to be, because you are perfect in your own way.”
“For innovators who find safe and workable solutions to global warming, the rewards will be staggering.”

Source : Miriam Horn, Fred Krupp (2009). “Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming”, p.245, W. W. Norton & Company
“I like them old and rich.”
“Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.”

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