Quotes June 16, 2020

People don’t make changes because things are wonderful.
Jamaica Kincaid,
writer
 
 
 
 
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
Claude Monet,
Impressionist painter
 
 
 
 
In order to rise/From its own ashes/A phoenix/First/Must/Burn.
Octavia E. Butler,
writer
 
 
 
 
Investigate yourself to find the truth — inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
Ajahn Chah,
Buddhist monk
 
 
 
 
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor Adorno,
philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist, composer
 
 
 
 
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
Geoffrey Chaucer,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.
Marian Wright Edelman,
children’s rights activist, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund
 
 
 
 
The less you care, the happier you are.
Unknown