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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

Love is such a powerful force. It’s there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Democratic societies can’t force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation – a force for construction and destruction.

Don’t lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It’s an extremely powerful weapon.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Islam has always been a force that dispels tyrants and tyranny, opression and exploitaion. Islam has always been a force that militates for justice.

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

Love is… a positive force of life.

Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

I participated in many different rituals, but for me, I’m very spiritual and I believe that there’s definitely be a greater force that defines us and leads us. For sure. No question for me.

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed…. Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.