Quotes March 11, 2021

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
bell hooks,
writer, professor, feminist, social activist
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
Norton Juster,
academic, architect, writer
1929-2021
 
 
 
 
Socrates showed us that thinking the truth is not enough. Truth demands to be lived.
Americ Azavedo
 
 
 
 
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Desmond Tutu
 
 
 
 
Our broken forest is in our hearts and in our children’s tears
Diana Beresford-Kroeger
 
 
 
 
Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.
Sara Ahmed
 
 
 
 
Change is not about putting a different kind of people in power but a different kind of power in people.
Michael Nagler
 
 
 
 
The resolution of a koan requires a certain trust of mystery, a faith that there is an answer which will come in time.
Rachel Naomi Remen
 
 
 
 
Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.
Paulo Cohelo
 
 
 
 
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
Gwendolyn Brooks
 
 
 
 
Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth.
Lewis Mumford
 
 
 
 
Your art is the place you always return to. It’s the place without borders, time, or expectation. It is a geography of longing that maps its own meaning.
Pat Benincasa
 
 
 
 
Courage naturally appears once you realize you are alone.
Unknown