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You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!

to give

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Friedrich Schiller - The Robbers /

heart

There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.

Charles Baudelaire /

Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something.

Bertolt Brecht /

It is spirit that rules the world, not intelligence.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery /

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson /

Philosophy is the culture of the soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero /

Who wishes to travel far spares his steed.

Jean Racine - Les Plaideurs /

travel

Few maxims are true in every respect.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Francis Bacon /

Justice

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

water

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Nelson Mandela /

We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

Reason does not know the interests of the heart.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

Everyone has the right to happiness, but nobody has the right to destroy the happiness of others.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

All that is mine I carry with me.

Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium /

good

To make another happy, is to deserve to be happy one's self.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Lettre à M. Hume /

happiness

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Albert Einstein /

Simplicity is the result of maturity.

Friedrich Schiller /

simplicity

And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist /

Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

François Fénelon /

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Madame de Staël /

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun

Jacques Prévert /

If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Citadelle /

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy /

Man

Philosophize, to think your life and to live your thoughts: for that is what philosophy is.

André Comte-Sponville /

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains only a pupil.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

Immanuel Kant /

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human /

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