Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsi

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. – W. H. Auden

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Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play. – Charlotte Davis Kasl, Finding Joy, 1994

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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. – John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried. – Proverb

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You do not reform a world by ignoring it. – George Bush

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Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive. – Doutzen Kroes

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