Tag Archives: Quotes
No Escape
“The problem begins with that word ‘world’. It means two such opposite things. The real one we cannot see. The invented one we can’t escape.” ~Richard Powers, The Overstory ©2018
…with a little compassion
“If we were all perfected beings we wouldn’t be here in the physical world. The fact that we’re all here in these bodies means that we’re not perfected. So having accepted we’re not perfected, we can allow for each others inadequacies or failings with a little compassion.” ~George Harrison
It Doesn’t Matter
“Appreciate and rejoice, without any expectation. It doesn’t matter if people are unkind to you, it doesn’t matter if people betray you, it doesn’t matter if people don’t even say ‘thank you’ to you; by appreciating everything around you, from happy experiences to sad, your life will become meaningful, full of understanding, joy, strength and …
There’s Always
“When all else fails, there’s always delusion.” ~Conan O’Brien
I Must Try
“If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can’t, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.” ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Future
The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are …
But From
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” ~Kahlil Gibran
The Things That Made Me Happy
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.” ~Neil Gaiman, …
Always Another
“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.” ~Jeanette Winterson
The Sea I Swim In
“Depression has often been the general background of my daily life. My feeling is that whatever I did was in spite of that, not because of it. It wasn’t the depression that was the engine of my work.…That was just the sea I swam in.” ~Leonard Cohen (source)
Are You Really?
“Are you really going to hand over the White House to a real estate agent?” ~John Lydon, on Donald Trump Politics is the only field where inexperience and ignorance are considered to be positive qualities. Apply for literally any other job in the world and tell them, “I’ve never done this before, but that’s a …
Don’t Tell Anyone
“Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep …
Just a Different Way to Be
“Picture a wave in the ocean. You can see it, measure it – its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through – and it’s there, and you can see it, and you know what it is: it’s a wave. And then it crashes on the shore and it’s gone. But the water …
Two Ways
“People tend to approach challenges in one of two ways: as problem-solving, or as conflict.” ~Steven Pinker (source) That’s why the American government doesn’t work anymore. As long as congress sees every issue as a conflict to be won rather than a problem to be solved, we’re going to lurch from one extreme to the …
Every Human Being
“Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don’t ask who deserves it. Every human being deserves it.” ~Howard Zinn
Benevolent Gifts
“Kids don’t have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent …
Passive Voice
Jackson Katz is on the web HERE.
What I *Really* Mean
The bible verses check out! You can read them for yourself here: Judges 4 Proverbs 31
That’s Nice
“I’d rather be hated or loved, rather than just thought of as all right or nice. ‘Nice’ is the worst insult you could pay anybody. It means you are utterly without threat, without values. Nice is a cup of tea.” John Lydon, in his autobiography Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, ©1994
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