"I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way."

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Leo Buscaglia

#Light Quotes #Offering Quotes #People Quotes

“Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together”
“Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachetâ€”if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but itâ€™s swimming pools as well.”
“The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.”
“We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.”
“I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.”
“We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.”
“There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.”

Source : Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.253, Modern Library
“When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood â€” a truly free society.”

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