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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way. ↗

— Sheri L. Dew

#self-confidence #change

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe. Of course it’s important to know what’s right and what’s wrong. Individual errors in judgment can usually be corrected. As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. But intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host, change form, and continue to thrive. They’re a lost cause, and I don’t want anyone like that coming in here. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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we are, in any case, only one of the forces acting in society ↗

— Errico Malatesta

#politics #social-change #change

If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it! ↗

— Trooper

#motivational-quotes #organization #change

You have exactly 10 seconds to change that look of disgusting pity, into one of enormous respect! ↗

— Max Bialystock

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God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#god #small-steps #today #change

No way of life so entrenched will ever 'wither away' - it must be helped, with dynamite, if need be. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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If you want change and don’t make choices that reflect the change, you are making a choice to keep things the same. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#choices #let-go #life #change

Great changes in our society are always inspired and set in motion by one person. Be that person today. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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