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"Underlying our glitzy modern consumer culture there is a deep spiritual undernourishment and malaise that manifests all kinds of symptoms: nervous disorders, loneliness, alienation, purposelessness So blanking out, running away, burying our heads in sand or videotape will take us nowhere ...

"Lean on me when you’re not strong, and I’ll be your friend, I’ll help you carry on. For it won’t be long till I’m gonna need somebody to lean on." - Bill Withers ...

"Absolute self-sacrifice, uncompromising loyalty, resilience and faith in the face of adversity, and the triumph of the weak where the strong fail." ...

"Dear young people, you are under threat from the bad use of advertising techniques, which plays upon the natural tendency to avoid effort and promises the immediate satis­faction of every desire, while con­sumerism that goes with it suggests that [you] ...

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”   Plato ...

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." - Henry David Thoreau ...

"Oh great creator of being, grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives." ...

"To succeed in life you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone" - Reba McEntire ...

"One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry." - Corita Kent ...

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, it is the parent of all the others” - Cicero ...