Quotes March 23, 2021

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
African Proverb
 
 
 
 
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house”.
Audre Lorde
 
 
 
 
What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
Edward Abbey
 
 
 
 
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Martha Beck
 
 
 
 
Being able to self-activate positive experiences — to call up inner strengths at will — is fundamental to coping, well-being, and everyday effectiveness. With practice, these experiences and strengths will increasingly activate on their own.
Rick Hanson
 
 
 
 
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
Dalai Lama
 
 
 
 
Sometimes we speak clumsily and create internal knots in others. Then we say, “I was just telling the truth.” It may be the truth, but if our way of speaking causes unnecessary suffering, it is not Right Speech.
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more the good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.
Etty Hillesum
 
 
 
 
We must embrace more holy envy and less unholy ignorance.
Robert Azzi
 
 
 
 
Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
 
 
 
 
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Sarah Williams
 
 
 
 
We cannot let our ideas blind us to our unknowing.
Jane Hirschfield
 
 
 
 
We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.
George Perkins Marsh in 1864
 
 
 
 
Be patient and persistent in pursuit of your goals.
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