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“Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.”

World Faces Social Compassion Generations Poison Our World Healthcare Psycho Shrinking Immunity Toxins

Author:Joan Halifax

“Rather than shrinking away from your problems, grow bigger than them.”

Problem Grows Bigger Shrinking

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Your playing small doesn't serve the world.”

“Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.”

“Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.”

Ifs Believe Mean Moments Happens Purpose Pleasure Growing Awareness Identity Becoming Ego That Moment Negativity Shrinking

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.”

People Thinking Littles Book Hard Can Do Player Share Industry Essentials Harder Independent Bottom Starting Legacy Pie Venture Great People Interference Shrinking

Author:Seth Godin

“More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.”

World Needs Growing Talent Pool Engineers Shrinking

Author:Dean Kamen

“Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.”

Mother Pay Moral Careers Century Humorous Feminist Motherhood Ladders Being A Mom Pedestal Shrinking Brash

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.”

People Feels Like You Who You Are Violet Shrinking Disrespectful

Author:Keke Palmer

“I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.”

Source: Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer

“If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet.”

Ifs Self Matter Sports Can Do Self Confidence You Can Do It Violet Shrinking

Author:Dizzy Dean

“True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests.”

Men Mind Heart Real Use Action Humanity Ears Misery Starting Active Tales Nerves Endeavor Disposition Prompts Shrinking

Author:Charles James

“History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.”

Government Wealth Enemy Creation Source Prove Destructive Preference Private Sector Shrinking Redistribution Of Wealth

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.”

Way Sin Down And Shrinking

Author:Louie Giglio

“With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.”

I Can Economy Highest Honour Gentleness Vessel Shrinking Precedence

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“When you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less-shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it.”

Needs Energy Fear Consciousness Seeing Hearing Frightened Shrinking

Book:Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

“Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.”

Way May Causes Battle Size One Way Addresses Stomach Surgery Obesity Diabetes Shrinking Walnuts

Author:Mark Hyman, M.D.

“It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.”

Source: Man the Unknown

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