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Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world peace. We will never truly prosper or experience lasting harmony, until we refrain from preaching the gospel of our own moral values and our personal preferences by forcing it upon others.”

Anthon St. Maarten (via letskeeplifesimple)

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, and the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (via poweredbyplantscr)

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction…. The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength To Love, 1963 (via animalsandtrees)

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All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers… Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born

François Fénelon (via earthisalie)

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“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace (via homosociallyyours)

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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.

Leo Tolstoy (via tolstoyanddostoyevsky)

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Let the chaos of a cruel society bring you back to the reverence of the Earth.

Schuyler Peck (via schuylerpeck)

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Be the person you needed when you were younger

unknown (via livingwithroxy)

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Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn (via refuse2obeyjournal)

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Life is only as good as your mindset

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“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi (via jhbrd)

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When we learn to move beyond mistaken concepts and see clearly, we no longer solidify reality. We see waves coming and going, arising and passing. We see that life, composed of this mind and body, is in a state of continual, constant transformation and flux. There is always the possibility of radical change. Every moment - not just poetically or figuratively, but literally - every moment we are dying and being reborn, we and all of life.

Sharon Salzberg (via abiding-in-peace)

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One day I read a quote from Vincent Van Gogh that said, “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable, but no flowers grow there”. And let me tell you, I am blooming.

life is hard but i will keep growing (via oxygeniuss)