There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.
BILL VAUGHANIt might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
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The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
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I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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