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I read a lot. Sometimes I find passages or quotations that underscore my beliefs or make me consider my values. This page reminds me of those ideas. |
My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world. - Adrienne Rich When you cease to make
a contribution, you begin to die. --Eleanor Roosevelt "Love must be regarded
as the final flower and fruit of justice. When it is substituted for justice it degenerates into sentimentality and may become the accomplice of tyranny. " -- Reinhold Niebuhr February 10, 1941. It is very hard
to be simple enough to be good. -- RW Emerson, 23 October 1837 Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things what'er you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, Where truth abides in fullness; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception---which is truth. -- Robert Browning "Throughout history, it has
been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, and the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph." -- Haile Selassie I Awakening is dynamic,
Constantly evolving in accordance with life's realities-- Unfolding from ego-self to compassionate self, From enclosed self to open self, From foolish self to enlightened self. --Taitetsu Unno "I am not only a pacifist
but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war." -- Albert Einstein "We have become a culture
of the copy, rather than of the masterpiece. We no longer deal with original ideas but with regurgitated cliches. Look at cloning. A clone is a copy. Sex, on the other hand, breeds originality. You get something entirely new. Does anyone believe you can have a livable world based on a copy? Rejecting the copy will do interesting things to your purchasing habits, and to your experiecne of beauty and integrity." Carolyn Raffensperger, environamental activist, THE SUN (November 2002) "I know of no more encouraging
fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." --Henry David Thoreau "I was once asked why
I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there." -- Mother Teresa "Exactness is a mirror,
not of the world, but of the ideology of the world." -- Susan Stewart "If art, all art, is concerned with truth,
then a society in denial will not find much use for it." --Jeanette Winterson "Any man's life, however uneventful, conceals more riches and mystery than the most profound poem or the most complex mental process."
-- Mario Vargas Llosa, **A Writer's Reality** (1991) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will. -- Ingrid Bengis "I think that what the gay movement
needs now is much more the art of life than a science or scientific knowledge (or pseudo-scientific knowledge) of what sexuality is.... We have to understand that with our desires, through our desires, go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality: it's a possibility for creative life." -- Michel Foucault, 1982 "The self is the new strategic possibility." -- Paul Veyne, 1993 | |||||||||||||||