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  • #1
    Chögyam Trungpa
    “A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.”
    Chögyam Trungpa, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior

  • #2
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #3
    Joe Strummer
    “People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world. ”
    Joe Strummer

  • #4
    Calvin Coolidge
    “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
    Calvin Coolidge

  • #5
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    Frederick Lewis Donaldson

  • #6
    Chögyam Trungpa
    “The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.”
    Chogyam Trungpa, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior

  • #7
    Lao Tzu
    “The best fighter is never angry.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #8
    Lao Tzu
    “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #9
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “It is not enough to be compassionate, we must act.”
    Dali Lama

  • #10
    Aldous Huxley
    “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
    Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays



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