#condition

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#civilization #condition #harbor #movement #voyage

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#chronic #conditions #crippling #depression #disorder

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#acceptance #conditional love #gift #give #greatest

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. ↗

— Morris West

#acceptance #always #apt #condition #conflict

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#civil #colonists #condition #conduct #cultivation

In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#conditions #difference #in the past #lebanon #operated

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#cause #condition #first #great #identity

And the second [thing about the CBS EVENING NEWS that stands out in the mind of Michael J. Fox] was something Katie did later in the interview, as the drugs kicked in and the tremors segued into the jerkiness of dyskinesias. Somewhere in the contortions of making a point, my left arm detached the microphone clip from my jacket lapel. With no fuss and hardly a break in conversation or eye contact, she calmly leaned over and refastened it. Neither of us commented on it, but it was such an empathetic gesture, so far from anything patronizing or pitying, a simple kindness that allowed me the dignity to carry on making a point more important than the superficiality of my physical circumstance... ...One thing was abundantly clear though, whether or not she was able to forget how much she liked me: with that single act of consideration, she made it abundantly clear how much she loved her father. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#compassion #inspiration #love #priorities #unconditional_acceptance

Wounds heal. Scars fade. Awful memories can be overwritten with better ones if given the chance. The little imperfections of our psyches become overshadowed by the people whose love we cherish because they cherish us despite our faults; physical, emotional, spiritual, or otherwise. This thing we call the human condition with all its bittersweet blind corners and senseless humor evolves from within ourselves and not because of some pre-ordained reverie we desire to cast in the constellations. All in all it is what makes life worth living. ↗

— August Clearwing

#human-condition #imperfections #life #love #memories

When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#connected #heart-level #joy #kindness #love