"When you are happy, the people around you are happy, too, and it inspires them to change their own world."
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"It's the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest."
"Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge, posing an untapped opportunity to create markets, bring people in from the margins and give them the tools with which to help themselves."
"What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people."
"After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless."
"Evangelization is leading people to Jesus, not ourselves."
"I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me."
"So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle."
"Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware there are things the human voice just doesn't do. She does them."
"People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people."
"There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim."
"We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God's coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of fear that God's coming should arouse in us. We are indifferent to the message, taking only the pleasant and agreeable out of it and forgetting the serious aspect, that the God of the world draws near to the people of our little earth and lays claim to us. The coming of God is truly not only glad tidings, but first of all frightening news for everyone who has a conscience."
"How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?"
"In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves."
"We're living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy."
"People learn more on their own rather than being force fed."
"I learned how to take other people's mechanisms of promoting their stuff through me as opposed to promoting my own stuff, as far as getting Snoop DeVilles, SnoopDeGrills, Snoop Doggy Dogg biscuits, Snoop Dogg record label, Snoop Dogg bubble gum, Snoop Youth Football League."
"It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work."
"There's nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear."
"Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have."