#centered

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#centered #century #commonwealth #crop #family

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#i think #leads #nature #often #self-centered

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated. ↗

— Alveda King

#believing #certain #corrupts #falsehood #fully

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#principles #self-centeredness #life

Cultivate the understanding that the self is not really an independently existing entity, and begin to view self instead in terms of it's dependent relation to others. Although it is difficult to say that merely reflecting on this will produce a profound spiritual realization, it will at least have some effect. Your mind will be more open. Something will begin to change within you. Therefore, even in the immediate term there is definitely a positive and beneficial effect in reversing these two attitudes and moving from self-centeredness to other-centeredness, from belief in self existence to belief in dependent origination. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#other-centeredness #self #self-centeredness #spiritual-realization #attitude

A film centered around the Second World War with a predominantly white cast would not have the pressure on it that 'Red Tails' has. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#cast #centered #film #predominantly #pressure

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life. ↗

— Rick Perry

#faith #farm #growing #growing up #hard

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#except #family #find #human #human family

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. ↗

— Michael Graves

#around #been #centered #dialogue #idea

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#everybody #gutter #i #little #punk