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~ As meditation deepens, complusions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior ~

Eknath Easwaran

~ Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power ~

~ Those who know others are intelligent; those who know themselves are truly wise . Those who master others are strong; those who master themselves have true power ~

Lao-Tzu

~ Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation ~

Montaigne

~ One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back ~

Carl Sagan

~ Even as recently as 1969, I still had the illusion, you see, that atomic energy could be a safe alternative to damming all our rivers for power. ~

David Brower

~ Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts. ~

Gutzkow

~ There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest ~

Elie Wiesel

~ He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through,--to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire ~

Elizabeth Gaskell

~ The real challenge in life is to choose, hold, and operate through intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs. ~

Michael Sky

~ Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty ~

William Bennett

~ Yesterday I saw a child wearing a T-shirt that said, "If you love me, don't feed me junk food." I was delighted to see this, but I also know how difficult it can be to feed our children well, particularly when the foods that are most convenient and the most heavily advertised are often the ones we should avoid. Joel Fuhrman's new book is a blessing, because it makes it so much easier. It is excellent, and full of clarity, wisdom, and guidance you can trust. It can indeed give you the power to shape your child's health destiny ~

John Robbins

~ If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment ~

Charles F. Kettering

~ Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power. ~

STEPHEN COVEY

~ A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol. ~

Charles Horton Cooley

~ In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it. ~

Joseph Badaracco

~ Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it arises under a facets government or communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. ~

Albert Einstein

~ When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power. ~

Alston Chase

~ The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. ~

Erich Fromm

~ The so-called ‘Palestinian autonomous areas’ are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system. ~

Nelson Mandela

~ Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power..... ~

Plato

~ One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~

Joy Hargrove

~ Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first. ~

Dalai Lama

~ Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ~

Ovid

~ Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. ~

General George Catlett Marshall

~ Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure. ~

John Ruskin

~ Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. ~

Stephen R. Covey

~ Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life ~

Norman Cousins

~ What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. ~

Salman Rushdie

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