“We don’t develop and acquire courage by taking the…

“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it;
to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

Source: The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), Section 2, paragraph 72 (last paragraph).

“When we need a new nation to develop and grow to bring us good fruits then why we don’t put our hands together, and everyone can take their small side of farms, till we reach out to each other. as long as we move in.”

Ayuel Monykuch (1997) South Sudanese Entrepreneur

“Spiritual mastery is never easy. It takes much more time and personal application than physical development does. Spirtual mastery, however, is the path we are all on. Some of us simply do not choose to believe it.”

Scott Shaw (1958) American actor

The Warrior is Silent

“Above all, we [the Italian Futurist painters] continue and develop the divisionist principle, but we are not engaged in Divisionism [developed by Seurat and Signac ]. We apply an instinctive complementarism which is not, for us, an acquired technique, but rather a way of seeing things.”

Luigi Russolo (1885–1947) Electronic music pioneer and Futurist painter

Quote of Russolo in: Le Futurisme: Création et avant-garde, Giovanni Lista, 2001; as cited in Futurism, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 47.
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“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”

Epicurus (-341–-269 BC) ancient Greek philosopher

“Ladies and gentlemen, every path leads somewhere. That is what a path is all about. The path of segregation leads to lynching every time. The path of antisemitism leads to Auschwitz every time. The path of the cults leads to Jonestown and we watch it at our peril.”

Maurice Davis (1921–1993) American rabbi

Variant: We know, and we must never forget, that every path leads somewhere. The path of segregation leads to lynching. The path of anti-Semitism leads to Auschwitz. The path of cults leads to Jonestown. We ignore this fact at our peril. As quoted in "How Many Jonestowns Will It Take?" in The Cult Observer (1992), p. 123

Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Maurice Davis / Quotes / Address on the Cult Phenomenon in the United States (1979)

“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each othereverywhere.”

Tim McGraw (1967) American country singer

Variant: We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.

“Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.”

Alan Hirsch (1959) South African missionary

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 20

“We understand the mentality Taiwan compatriots have developed under special historical conditions. We respect their identification with the current social system, values and lifestyle and we know that some friends still harbor misgivings on the development of the cross-strait relations.”

Yu Zhengsheng (1945) Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

Yu Zhengsheng (2014) cited in " Top political advisor vows understanding on Taiwan http://english.cntv.cn/2014/06/15/ARTI1402811332174644.shtml" on English CCTV.com, 15 June 2014.

““We don’t develop and acquire courage by taking the smoothest path each time. We develop it by facing misfortune and perilous conditions.””

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