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"We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better."
"I have not asked for life. But I try to accept whatever life brings without surprise. And I shall depart again without having questioned anyone about my strange stay here on earth."
"Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6 and 8 hertz. All biological systems operate in the same frequency range. The human brain's alpha waves function in this range and the electrical resonance of the earth is between 6 and 8 hertz. Thus, our entire biological system - the brain and the earth itself - work on the same frequencies. If we can control that resonate system electronically, we can directly control the entire mental system of humankind."
"What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky."
"You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it."
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"O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones."
"There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan."
"If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital."
"And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love."
"We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary."
"Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space."
"Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a divine supermanhood. The step from man towards superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring, but troubled and limited human existence — inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process."
"And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth."
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
"Maybe this one moment, with this one person, is the very reason we’re here on Earth at this time."
"Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny."
"Love is the most powerful weapon on the face of the earth."
"Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone."
"You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life."
"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one."
"Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth."
"If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum."
"If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen."
"There is no regularly constituted church of Christ on earth, nor any person qualified to administer any church ordinances; nor can there be until new apostles are sent by the Great Head of the Church for whose coming I am seeking."
"There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?"
