Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle. -
We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character. -
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation. -
I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it. -
I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.
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- Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
- A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
- God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
- Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
- Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.