If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
-- Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
-- Frederick Douglass
JULIET: But old folks, many feign as they were dead;
Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.
— Romeo and Juliet, II, v
Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location - Joe McNally
#photography #quote
"But then I think no, it has nothing to do with being dead, it's not death that allows us to understand one another, but poetry."
Ursula K. Le Guin
Lavinia
#SundaySentence #quote #UrsulaKLeGuin
We won the revolution, what we lost was the war.
-- Abel Paz
celebrate all who plant seeds of #kindness to make the world more beautiful for people living with #Alzheimers and other forms of #dementia.
"It is important to know the Architects of the Propaganda you passively consume" - Princess Weeks
“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” ~James Cash Penney
Wars have always affected civilians in varying degrees, depending on scale and outcome. But a modern system of all-encompassing conflict, with almost inescapable effect across all sectors of society, is something that largely originated from the French Revolution.
The Revolution, at its time, was a unique combination of a government that demanded service from its own citizens, and the citizens themselves enthusiastically joining the war effort.
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Often, the fear of one evil leads us into a worse one.
Souvent, la peur d’un mal nous entraîne dans un mal pire
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
French Poet and Critic
Courtesy, The Economist
"This, my dear, is the greatest challenge of being alive; To witness the injustice of this world, and not allow it to consume our light."
-Unknown
As carers, we don't need anyone imposing their judgment on us. We welcome those who offer #empathy and tangible support.
"历史同传说混为一谈,一篇民间故事就这样诞生的。真实只存在于经验之中,而且得是自身的经验,然而,那怕是自身的经验,一经转述,依然成了故事。真实是无法论证的,也毋须去论证,让所谓生活的真实的辩士去辩论就得了,要紧的是生活。"
— Gao Xingjian: 灵山, p. 2
#高行健 #在读引用 #quote #reading #bookstodon #booksky @reading@ovo.st
#Caregiving depends on continually developing your ability to compassionately observe, listen, empathize, evaluate, innovate, communicate and support.
“Me after socializing or going to the grocery store.”
A major life principle I personally hold is that belief, and expression of such belief, are two different things. Many people may agree with you on certain matters, but they may also not be as enthusiastic about them as you are.
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A major life principle I personally hold is that belief, and expression of such belief, are two different things. Many people may agree with you on certain matters, but they may also not be as enthusiastic about them as you are.
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#history histodons #quote #bookstodon
Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 25
There was something formless and perfect
before the universe was born.
It is serene. Empty.
Solitary. Unchanging.
Infinite. Eternally present.
It is the mother of the universe.
For lack of a better name,
I call it the Tao.
It flows through all things,
inside and outside, and returns
to the origin of all things.
The Tao is great.
The universe is great.
Earth is great.
Man is great.
These are the four great powers.
Man follows the earth.
Earth follows the universe.
The universe follows the Tao.
The Tao follows only itself.
Third Patriarch of Zen
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Be serene in the oneness of things, and such erroneous views will disappear by themselves.
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity, your very effort fills you with activity.
As long as you remain in one extreme or the other, you will never know Oneness.