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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Slaves.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves,
we do not like to consider our equal.
- Charles Darwin
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We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
We have a choice of how we view the obstacles on our life path.
One choice makes us slaves to circumstance,
while the other empowers us, and motivates us
to follow our dreams - and our happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Because we fear the responsibility for our actions,
we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves.
Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence,
we now pledge "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor"
not to one another for our mutual protection, but to the state,
whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us.
- Butler D. Shaffer
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
The whole commerce between master and slave
is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,
the most unremitting despotism on the one part,
and degrading submissions on the other.
Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
As I would not be a slave,
so I would not be a master.
This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors,
and no slave who has not had a king among his.
- Helen Keller
I think the person who takes a job in order to live -
that is to say, for the money -
has turned himself into a slave.
- Joseph Campbell
Men's actions are too strong for them.
Show me a man who has acted,
and who has not been the victim
and slave of his action.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,
I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
I argue thee that love is life.
And life hath immortality.
- Emily Dickinson
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Today... Give thanks for the miracles -
Give thanks for the love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Our opportunity is to visualize a kinder world.
To sing glad songs of tomorrow -
imagining a world of love -
of the whole world filled with love.
To offer our hand... often.
To breathe deeply and honor ourselves.
To pause and contemplate... just because.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Affirmation:
Today I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance,
love, selflessness, kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me.
Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.
It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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