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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. George Eliot |
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By Laura Lee Cuthbert |
Sacred Duty
"The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity—then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective." - David Suzuki |
Power
“One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.” - Phil Hine |
“Bring me your suffering. The rattle roar of broken bones. Bring me the riot in your heart. Angry, wild and raw. Bring it all. I am not afraid of the dark.” - Mia Hollow |
One step at a time <3
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Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor
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Magik <3
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Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -- over and over announcing your place in the family of things. -Mary Oliver |
Amusements
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” - Voltaire |
I felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions.
—Frederick Douglass, in a letter to a friend after reaching New York in 1838, after narrowly escaping the clutches of slavery. |
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
~Fredrick Douglass |
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I am that "ratchet" girl just as much as I am the girl who talks about politics and listens to soul music—and I am allowed to be. —Itunu Abolarinwa
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One of my most favorite poets. Her words are fire. Nayyirah Waheed She also has a book called "salt". It's a must read if you haven't already. Whew. |
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You cannot make everybody happy.
You're not a Nutella jar. - Anonymous |
Much of America’s past is the story of white people benefiting from a system that white people designed and maintained, which increased their chances of success as it suppressed those same chances in other groups. Those systems persist to this day in some disturbing ways, but the current, vociferous naming and challenging of those systems, the placing of the lamp of truth near the seesaw of privilege and oppression, has provoked a profound sense of discomfort and even anger.... Last month, the MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes tweeted: “This campaign is starting to feel more and more like a long, national nervous breakdown.” For white America, I believe this is true.
—Charles M. Blow, from today's NYTimes.com opinion page |
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt :vigil: |
C’est cela l’amour, tout donner, tout sacrifier sans espoir de retour. That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return. - Albert Camus |
L’amour est l’emblème de l’éternité, il confond toute la notion de temps, efface toute la mémoire d’un commencement, toute la crainte d’une extrémité. Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. - Madame de Staël |
"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning."
John Maxwell |
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“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
― George Harrison |
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