People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
– Norman Cousins
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- The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. – Norman Cousins
- Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. – Norman Cousins
- But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people… – JeanJacques Rousseau
- The fight for truth…is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth. – Vandana Shiva
- Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens. – Abhijit Naskar
- I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ”Of couse I am – sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back. – Aleister Crowley
- As you develop, the people around you also develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree. – Choa Kok Sui
- the government tends to act like a corporation treating the public as its consumers rather than its citizens – Fairclough Norman
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- The sweetness of adversity: we develop the sanity of solitude. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one’s worse habits. – Oscar Wilde
- Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny – John Cleaver – Dan Wells
- Sow a thought, and you reap an act;Sow an act, and you reap a habit;Sow a habit, and you reap a character;Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. – Samuel Smiles
- Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God. – Elizabeth George
- The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character. – John Climacus
- For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity. – Augustine of Hippo
- Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls. – Walt Whitman
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- From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou’s point of view, you develop appreciation. – Ram D
- To develop the person inside you is to pay attention and develop life within yourself – Sunday Adelaja
- To develop stronger focus, develop a greater reason or meaning for your goal. – Mensah Oteh
- Tragic as it is when a child fails to develop physically or mentally, even more tragic is a Christian who fails to develop spiritually. – Billy Graham
- Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications. – Orrin Woodward
- If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another. – PD Ouspensky
- A father’s aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens. – Nicholas Dawidoff
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- The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- It doesn’t matter to me. We’re still cousins in our own way. Blood’s just something old people talk about to make you feel bad. – Rita Mae Brown
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- Hatred is unattractive, but it’s also irresistible. If men were honest with themselves, they’d admit it’s a stronger passion than lust. – Norman Lock
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- Bad people need a law to prove themselves but A good people don’t need a law to prove themselves – Prerna Banswal
- Fulfilling our destiny and realizing our potential all begins in our mind. That’s why the devil tries to bombard our thinking. – Christine Caine
- Jesus Christ lives in all people. We are citizens of one world. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Petty minds foster petty hearts, and have the funny habit of shooting themselves in the foot. – Adriano Bulla