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“Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.”

Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you. See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being.”

World Reality Light Peace Born Source Weakness Conviction Dues

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a whisper. The wind vane pointed toward the South Pole. Presently the wind cups ceased their gentle turning as the cold killed the breeze. My frozen breath hung like a cloud overhead. The day was dying, the night was being born-but with great peace. Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it!”

Night Force Peace Process Born Silence Dying Wind Cold Harmony Breaths South Clouds Cups Gentle Cosmos Cheeks Hung Frozen Breeze Harmonious Overhead

Book:Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

“If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157)”

Ifs Thinking Way Kind Christian Lasts Joy Peace Christ Born Meditation Inspire Breaths Mere Buddhist Generosity Resurrection Bodhisattva

Author:Jean Leloup

“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.”

Has Beens War Hard Peace Born Generations Century Bitter Foe Torches New Generation Inaugural Undoing Inaugural Address Inaugural Speech

Author:John F. Kennedy

“In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.”

People World Light Lasts Peace Born Darkness Mankind Ignorance Messages Islam Chosen Celebrate Messengers Ignorance And Fear

Author:Cat Stevens

“Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.”

People World Earth Peace Growth Born Issues Written Generations Sky Bloody Another World New Earth

Book:Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker

Source: Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

“To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.”

War Games Winning Peace Born Loses Teach Style Born To Live

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.”

Thinking Men Peace Born Greater Masters Slave Chains Born Free Fave

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.”

Giving Years Mother Culture Peace Born Son Birth Hundred Years Ago My Time Meant To Be Mary Fourteen

Author:Meister Eckhart