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Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatures that compels us to act on their behalf.

Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatures that compels us to act on their behalf.
– Laurence Overmire

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  1. The more we understand the One Idea, how all of life is interconnected and interdependent, the more we can act in positive ways for the good of all. – Laurence Overmire
  2. Kill someone on the behalf of yourself, you get deemed a murderer. Kill someone on behalf of your Government, you get deemed a hero. – JAdam Snyder
  3. I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men. – Alain Bombard
  4. I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men. – Alain Bombard
  5. Good people turn to love, courage and kindness in times of crisis, not hate, fear and cruelty. – Laurence Overmire
  6. No matter what path you’re on in this life, if that path isn’t about love, you’re on the wrong path. – Laurence Overmire
  7. Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty. – Laurence Overmire
  8. Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush. – Laurence Overmire
  9. Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again. – Laurence Overmire
  10. Only in making peace – with ourselves, with others, and the world – will any of us find the life we are hoping for. – Laurence Overmire
  11. The way to peace, harmony and balance for the planet is through the loving kindness of each individual heart. – Laurence Overmire
  12. Fantasy, myth, legend, truth – all are intertwined in the story that is Scotland. – Laurence Overmire
  13. The future is won or lost in the war of ideas. – Laurence Overmire
  14. Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward. – Laurence Overmire
  15. Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language. – Laurence Overmire
  16. From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch. – Laurence Overmire
  17. To close a fellow human being in your heart compels more respect than attending 1000 Christmas Masses. – Ben Midland
  18. The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority. – Israelmore Ayivor
  19. Memorialization is not a passive practice but an active conversation. – Aanchal Malhotra
  20. Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams. – Ray A Davis
  21. Active evil is better than passive good – William Blake
  22. Experience is not worth the getting. It’s not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you–it’s a wall that an active you runs up against. – F Scott Fitzgerald
  23. Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses. – Deborah Day
  24. Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive. – Clay Shirky
  25. Let the creatures other than man also breathe freely. Remember that earth belongs to all the creatures living in this planet. – Mehmet Murat ildan
  26. What is more powerful than the love of a mother? Perhaps only God’s hand in answering her earnest pleadings on your behalf. – Richelle E Goodrich
  27. The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother’s mother, on back to Mother Earth. – Patricia Robin Woodruff
  28. Without compassion for a fellow man, for great splendors of our Sister, Mother Earth the humankind will never reconcile with itself. – Vinko Vrbanic
  29. Active-awareness combined with daily active-effort will compound to make a significant difference. – Akiroq Brost
  30. Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. – Novalis
  31. Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded-”a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  32. I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should. – Charles ens
  33. Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world. – Joanna Macy
  34. The God who delivered Hezekiah and the children of Israel is the same God who is eager to act on my behalf. – Lori Hatcher
  35. An act of love is not an act for you and not for me. It is an act for you as well as for me. Love is for us. – Vironika Tugaleva
  36. So we found the end of our journey.So we stood, alive in the river of light,Among the creatures of light, creatures of light. – Ted Hughes
  37. We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change. – AJ Darkholme
  38. When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. – Dale Carnegie
  39. Prayer was never meant to be magic,’ Mother said.’Then why bother with it?’ Suzy scowled.’Because it’s an act of love,’ Mother said. – Madeleine LEngle
  40. Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. – Joan Didion

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