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Speak with Authenticity

"Truth is always straightforward."---Sophocles

"The essence of communication is intention."---Werner Erhard

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."---Oliver W. Holmes

"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."---Horace

"When the mouth stumbles it is worse than the foot."---West African Proverb

"Speech is the mirror of the soul, as a man speaks, so he is."---Publilius Syrus

Model a Non-Judgmental Attitude

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."---Mother Teresa

"Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times, in all circumstances."---Saint Vincent de Paul

"Everyone is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum."---Baal Shem Tov

"The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise."---Henry David Thoreau

"Never throw mud.  You may miss your mark, and you will certainly have dirty hands."
---Joseph Parker

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."---Albert Einstein

"When you are able to approach others in a kindly, loving manner without judgment, they will tend to judge themselves and be transformed."---Peace Pilgrim

"It is a sin to call a person a sinner."---Vivekananda


Interact Lovingly

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others can not keep it from themselves."
---James M Barrie

"If only you could love, you would be the most powerful being in the world."---Emmet Fox

"Keep love in your heart.  A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."---Oscar Wilde

"Love is the great solvent of all difficulties, all problems, all misunderstanding."
---White Eagle

"The salvation of man is through love and in love."---Victor Frankl

"The nearest way to God leads through love's open door."---Angelus Silesius

"When we come to the last moment of this lifetime, and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What was the quality of our love?' ."---Richard Bach

"Love is the energizing elixir of the universe, the cause and effect of all harmonies."---Rumi

"Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return."
---Peace Pilgrim

"Love cures.  It cures those who give it and it cures those who receive it."---Karl Menniger

"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."---Martin L. King, Jr.


Listen Deeply
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."---Stephen Covey

"Do you know why we have two ears and one mouth?  We are supposed to listen twice as much as we talk."---Anonymous



Enrich the World
"My hope is to leave the world a little bit better than when I got here."---Jim Henson

"We are pencils in the hands of a loving God, who is writing love letters to the world."
---Mother Teresa

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.  Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."---Jon Muir

"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."---Buckminister Fuller

"How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."---Anne Frank

"Nature is our mother.  Because we live cut off from her, we get sick."---Thich Nhat Hanh
 
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