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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear
that it becomes formidable.
- Eric Hoffer
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir 
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley
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The means by which we live have outdistanced
the ends for which we live.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten
when you start thinking in terms of achieving something.
When the achieving mind arises,
you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
- Osho
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance,
you feel a loss of energy, a loss of power,
a sense of spiritual deadness.
- Shakti Gawain
Training yourself to live in the present -
without regretting the past or fearing the future -
is a recipe for a happy life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The power of the Wizard lives within me.
I call upon its magic at will - transforming Fear into Love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
These men ask for just the same thing,
fairness, and fairness only.
This, so far as in my power,
they, and all others, shall have.
- Abraham Lincoln
The power of an air force is terrific
when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill
Know that unconditional forgiveness
holds immense power to relieve your suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
INTENT:
We hold the power to make things happen
through our intent -
to the extent that we use our intention
with compassion and without ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine
My greatest Power and my greatest Inner Peace come
when I Intend my future, and when I avoid Expecting it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Know the power of breathing deeply and slowly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
When we are happy and serene,
time loses its power over us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have ready access to a power beyond my wildest imagination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Experience hath shown, that even
under the best forms of government,
those entrusted with power have,
in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
Experience does not err.
Only your judgments err by expecting from her
what is not in her power.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive
is devoid of the power to love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science investigates religion interprets.
Science gives man knowledge which is power
Religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Know that you hold the power to
bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe.
I have all that I need.
- Louise L. Hay
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a power for good in the universe
greater than you are and you can use it.
- Ernest Holmes
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind
in the history of the world or to make it the last.
- John F. Kennedy
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
- Helen Keller
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,
that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- Thomas Jefferson
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
Fill your heart with the creative power
to accept the past,
decorate the present
and transform the future.
- Osho
I am so thirsty for the marvelous
that only the marvelous has power over me.
- Anais Nin
Know the power of choice.
Fly life on free wings,
and sing to its glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am so honored that the Power of the Universe
has chosen for me to be ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of ritual.
Release your troubles to the cleansing fire of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
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