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I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy. ↗

— Sandra Brown

#calm-under-pressure #cool-hero #attitude

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#complex #complex system #different #easier #everyone

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#appreciate #around #goodness #people #positive

In certain situations, manifesting anger is the right attitude; in others it is not the right thing to manifest because it will only add to the violence. In the first case, anger unblocks the conflict and causes another to become more conscious. In the latter, it only adds to the unconsciousness and inflames the conflict. (73) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#attitude #conflict #consciousness #expression #peace

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are. ↗

— Ian Rankin

#nature #oceans #pollution #preservation #nature

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#good-people #human-nature #hypocrisy #pretending #roles

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#cumulative #democracy #education #history #inheritance

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. ↗

— Adam Ant

#i #illness #life #most #my life

If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ↗

— James Madison

#patriot-act #tyranny #war #acting

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#great #humanist #present #seen #slump