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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.- Marcus Garvey
Knowledge
Origin
Roots
Marcus Garvey
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
― John Steinbeck
Roots
America
USA
Millionaires
Embarrassed
Temporarily
By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.
― Ken Keyes Jr.
Opportunity
Emotional
Roots
Ken Keyes Jr.
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."
― Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
Life
Roots
Individuality
Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.
― Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash
Marriage
Roots
Growing
A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Thinking
Self
Roots
No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Pain
Reality
Roots
Ursula K. Le Guin
If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.
― T. Harv Eker
Change
Inspiring
Roots
T. Harv Eker
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Roots
Demand
Want
Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.
― Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
Powerful
Men
Roots
Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.
― Augustine of Hippo
Augustine Of Hippo
LoveIs
Roots
Speak