If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.
Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.
Happiness gives you the freedom to enhance your ability to achieve success. Your choices in life are a direct reflection of your level of happiness. It's the sunshine for your soul that you need in order to grow
If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
No one can predict the future exactly, but we know two things: It’s going to be different, and it must be rooted in today’s world.
A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.
For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read - and how he wants to write.
Our outer relationships are a mirror of the relationship and communication between our own inner male and female sides. Our outer relationships with a man or a woman are a possibility to understand our own inner man or woman.
In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially “grown up” and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.
Women have a role to play in global development.
It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress,
but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.
Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
To progress isn’t a little step, it’s a pretty dramatic lifestyle change.
To show our commitment to the future means to dedicate our time, efforts, resources, saving nature and to develop nice thoughts for better thinking.
Wake up with a purpose and make every effort to succeed. Many people spend their lives just going through the motions. They are satisfied with their daily routines or habitual lifestyles. Don't be complacent with those activities. Challenge yourself to be better, do greater things.
Science is the best idea humans have ever had.
The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll need the wisdom of the old Einstein - humane, global and farseeing. And whatever happens in this uniquely crucial century will resonate into the remote future and perhaps far beyond the Earth, far beyond the Earth
Every success and every bit of progress, is a building block for your next step.
The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect.
Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.
Maendeleo ya mtu yatatokana na juhudi za mtu mwenyewe.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Ujasusi ni kitu cha muhimu kwa maendeleo ya nchi yoyote. Watu wanaoshughulika na ujasusi wanapaswa kuwa makini mno kwani kazi yao ni nyeti sana kulinganisha na kazi za watu wengine. Kosa dogo la kiusalama linaweza kubadili mwelekeo wa historia ya nchi.
we may say that History develops, Art stands still
Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
You can't put money meant for the right course of action in the hands of criminals, rogues and thieves and expect to see positive changes or results.
Humanity reaches to its full development with beauty of thoughts and deeds
The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations.
This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college stood around on the porches under the porch lights and in the bushes in plain view, necking madly before the one o'clock curfew, so everybody passing by could see them. A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.
Think about the change that the world experiences without the aid of the right people and those who love and appreciate the presence of nature.
I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.
Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.
Persuading everyone to behave decently to each other because the society is so fragile is a worthy goal, but it may be more straightforward just to make the societies less fragile, which means developing their economies.
When we are in touch with our creativity, through passion and excitement, we always put ourselves in the most expansive state of consciousness. Fear slows down our development, while love supports a rapid growth.
Let go of everything that you hold onto, which does not serve you anymore. Be light, walk faster.
Consistency is good, but progress is better.
I don't like museums, I like labs.
Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.
There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into sharp conflict with people’s demands that their material and social needs should be fulfilled. Pg. 10
Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.
El desarrollo es
desarrollo, sólo si es humano
If we suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all.
If you make lots of little changes to your lifestyle, you’ll need to make time to have some fun too, otherwise life can get a little boring.
When our time is up we can only take with us what we have learned and experienced in our development in creating for ourselves and others.
"By helping others we help ourselves
In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young, healthy forest.
Progress means to be true to the world, If we need to make a change.
Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.
Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.
Status quo or grow: You are in control of your future.
Young children begin very early to internalize information that either encourages or discourages self-disclosure. Cues are intuitively understood. Most of what we feel is unexamined and articulated. Cultural norms are unwittingly absorbed. We learn when to speak and when to stay silent. - Pam MacRae (Ch. 2)
Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.
Maybe you care deeply about the environment or other global issues, or you feel strongly about your local region or community, but you just don't see how local money can help. I hope that this pamphlet will show you connections between what you care about and 'the money problem'.
The purpose of this pamphlet is to explain how local currencies work. Alone they cannot solve all the multiple financial, social and environmental crises we face, but they are an increasingly important part of the answer.
Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.
Chasing the external to achieve joy is a death-trap for personal-development.
Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.
They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be “channeling” someone else’s thoughts and feelings.
What we are is not all that we may become.
Through others we become ourselves.
Bringing the essence of life in form of experience is the most crucial element in the development of human mind.
Of course the thinking mind must sooner or later be controlled, developed, and supplied with the force of will for a break-through to non-thinking, a direct experience of non-duality. But at what stage?
Feedback is the breakfast of champions
The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.
Good" now is better than "Best" never.
Il ne peut pas y avoir un développement infini dans un univers fini.