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“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

“When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.”
― Elizabeth Berg

“Through life, I want to walk gently. I want to treat all of life – the earth and its people – with reverence. I want to remove my shoes in the presence of holy ground. As much as possible, I want to walk in peace.

I want to walk lightly, even joyfully, through whatever days I am given. I want to laugh easily. I want to step carefully in and out of people's lives and relationships. I don't want to tread any heavier than necessary.

And throughout life, I think I would like to walk with more humility and less anger, more love and less fear. I want to walk confidently, but without arrogance. I want to walk in deep appreciation. I want to be genuinely thankful for life's extravagant, yet simple, gifts – a star-splattered night sky or a hot drink on an ice-cold day.

If life is a journey, then how I make that journey is important. How I walk through life.”
― Steve Goodier

“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“If you are seeking closeness to the Beloved, love everyone.
Whether in their presence or absence, see only their good.
If you want to be as clear and refreshing as the
breath of the morning breeze,
like the Sun have nothing but warmth and light for everyone.”
― Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Khair

“Исправить человечество нельзя, исправить себя – просто.”
― Дмитрий Лихачев, Письма о добром

“Бережливостью владеет ум, жадность овладевает умом.”
― Дмитрий Лихачев, Письма о добром

“He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.”
― Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune