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• You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  Art, Believe, Faith In Yourself

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• For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.  As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.  That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.  When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.  We call this the moment of death.  That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.

  Bill Viola

  Ocean, Moving, Water

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• I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Congress cool to role in Iraqi inspections" by Kate Snow, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2002.

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• Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled.  All our difficulty comes with the others.  When did you meet a workman who believes the papers?  He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles....He's our problem.  We have to recondition him.  But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning.  They're all right already.  They'll believe anything.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Believe, People

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• I don't think Spain will need any kind of external support.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Thinking, Support, Spain

  "'Not if, but when' for Spanish bailout, experts believe" by Luke Baker, ca.reuters.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

  Nigel Farage

  Thinking, Bits

  "Hitler anti-euro ad condemned". edition.cnn.com. July 4, 2002.

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• Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Sight, Order

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1989). “Christian Meditation”, p.5, Ignatius Press

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• It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which man knows himself to be dependent, powers whose favors he needs, powers whose wrath he fears. Myths express the knowledge that man is not master of the world and his life, that the world within which he lives is full of riddles and mysteries and that human life also is full of riddles and mysteries.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Men, Reality, Wrath

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• Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God. It is a political alternative to the way the world is constituted. That's a very important part of the story that has been lost to accounts of salvation that are centered in the individual. But without an understanding that salvation is the reign of God, the need for the church to mediate salvation makes no sense at all.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Political, Understanding, Church

  Stanley Hauerwas (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.533, Duke University Press

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• You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

  Umberto Eco

  Falling In Love, Love You, Love Is

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

  Banksy

  Hero, Recycling, Wall And Piece

  "Banksy: Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

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• One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.

  John Fund

  Dog, Blue, House

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• Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Jobs, Real

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• Politicians detest self-sufficient citizens. Politicians need to be needed. When we get socialized medicine, you will be completely dependent upon politicians for your medical care, as Canadians are today. That's why if you need an MRI in Canada, you have to wait three months - unless you pay certain kinds of homage to the right politicians.

  Neal Boortz

  Self, Medicine, Waiting

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• Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know.

  Sen no Rikyu

  Tea Drinking, Water, Firsts

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• People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Writing, Keys, People

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• Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

  Carl Rogers

  Empathy, Understanding, Feelings

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• During empathy one is simply 'there for' the other individual, when experiencing their own feelings while listening to the other, i.e. during sympathy, the listener pays attention to something about themselves, and is not 'there for' the client. Consider how you would feel if you sensed that the individual listening to you was getting into their own 'stuff' rather than hearing and reflecting exactly what you were feeling in a moment of need?

  Enrico Caruso

  Empathy, Feelings, Listening

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• Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.

  Katherine Ellison

  Empathy, Trying, Comfort

  Katherine Ellison (2006). “The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter”, p.128, Basic Books

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• I recommend allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before turning our attention to solutions or requests for relief. When we proceed too quickly to what people might be requesting, we may not convey our genuine interest in their feelings and needs; instead, they may get the impression that we're in a hurry to either be free of them or to fix their problem. Furthermore, an initial message is often like the tip of an iceberg; it may be followed by yet unexpressed, but related - and often more powerful - feelings.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Powerful, Opportunity, People

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• Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Mean, Self, Empathy

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• We need empathy to give empathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Empathy

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• If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely I am to get me own needs met.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Empathy, Harmony, Behavior

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• The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Empathy, Understanding

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• Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Silence, Rejection, Empathy

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