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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment
and the other by acts of love. Power based on love
is a thousand times more effective and permanent
then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir 
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear
that it becomes formidable.
- Eric Hoffer
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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.
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
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
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
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
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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
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
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
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
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of the Wizard lives within me.
I call upon its magic at will - transforming Fear into Love.
- 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
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is a power for good in the universe
greater than you are and you can use it.
- Ernest Holmes
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe.
I have all that I need.
- Louise L. Hay
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
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
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
When we are happy and serene,
time loses its power over us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am so honored that the Power of the Universe
has chosen for me to be ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
I am so thirsty for the marvelous
that only the marvelous has power over me.
- Anais Nin
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
Know the power of ritual.
Release your troubles to the cleansing fire of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Fill your heart with the creative power
to accept the past,
decorate the present
and transform the future.
- Osho
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
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
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
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
The primal rhythmic power
and resonant sound of waves on the shore
are like the earth's heartbeat,
and become our connection with the body of nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene
The power of an air force is terrific
when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill
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
I have ready access to a power beyond my wildest imagination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that unconditional forgiveness
holds immense power to relieve your suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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