Quotes February 21, 2021

Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Roy T. Bennett
 
 
 
 
I speak of change not on the surface but in the depth–change in the sense of renewal.
James Baldwin
 
 
 
 
Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again.
Rachel Naomi Remen
 
 
 
 
Forgiveness is not about condoning or forgetting, it’s a creative exploration and analysis of the circumstances that brought you to that place. It’s a metamorphosis of the given idea about the experience, so that it serves us, as opposed to working against us.
Aqeela Sherrill
 
 
 
 
The vote is precious. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society, and we must use it.
John Lewis
 
 
 
 
To vote is to rise to the occasion of an opportunity to say YES and to take a stand for the shared heart of our world.
Kristi Nelson
 
 
 
 
I was born when all I once feared, I could love.
Hazrat Bibi Rabia of Basra
 
 
 
 
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
 
 
 
 
Nature–the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful–offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot.
Richard Louv
 
 
 
 
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman
 
 
 
 
The boundary between us and the rest of the world is so fluid. So I think of myself as a song the universe is singing.
Rebecca Henderson
 
 
 
 
This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebushes, giraffes, and humans.
Brian Swimme