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Making a Difference Quotes

What you do has an actual impact on the world and people around you. Here are some thoughts from the famous and not-so-famous on making a difference.

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Impermanence Quotes

You’ll here quotations on impermanence, the reality that everything changes and nothing lasts forever. Impermanence recognizes the reality of decay and ending. How does this idea that all is in flux influence the way we think about the world and our lives?

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Interdependence Quotes

Interdependence is when unique individual units which are connected so that actions by one affect all the others. It is neither dependence nor interdependence, but the complex interplay of both. These interdependence quotations explore the idea from many perspectives.

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Reverence for Life Quotes

Albert Schweitzer was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his Reverence for Life philosophy. What was that philosophy? What did Schweitzer and others say about it? Here are a few…

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Purpose Quotes

What is the purpose of life? of your life? of what you are working on? These eternal questions have occupied some of the wisest minds. Here are some inspiring and…

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Health Quotes

Quotations about health, being healthy. At a minimum, health is wellness, being free from illness or injury, and often is seen as more than that, a state of thriving, vigor,…

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Possibility Quotes

What is possible?  What could happen?  What are some alternatives to current reality, or to our current limited imagined futures?  Here are some quotes about possibility to ponder.

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Commitment Quotes

The root of "commitment" is about joining with others, engaging, giving your trust, sending with a purpose. To be committed is to be dedicated to a purpose, cause, or action.…

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Grief Quotes

Grief is a natural state of sadness when we lose a loved one, or have any loss of that magnitude. What have authors and wise people through the ages said…

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Death Quotes

Whether facing one's own death, or the death of a loved one, many have written wise words about the topic of dying. Here are a few for your reflection.

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Advice Quotes

Advice is how we offer to support others by suggesting or recommending what to think or what to do. Some of the quotes on this page are about advice itself,…