Janice Mirikitani famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of hopelessness, of despair buried in the depths of poverty, violence, racism are more deadly than bullets. The gift of light, in our compassion, our listening, our works of love is the gift of life to ourselves.
-- Janice Mirikitani

#Compassion #Love Is #Light
Bad women celebrate themselves..
-- Janice Mirikitani

#Celebrate
We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.
-- Janice Mirikitani

#War #Believe #Yellow
I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.
-- Janice Mirikitani

#Confidence #Healing #Butterfly

Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.
Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?
This is what our love isâ€“â€“a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We just need to keep battling. We're a team that has stuck together through the good times and the bad times. Our reward is near.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.

Janice Mirikitani famous quotes

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