"Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution."

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Source : Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

Barbara Deming

#Determination Quotes #Anger Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.”
“Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Mar 02, 2013
“a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.”
“Style is to forget all styles.”
“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.”

Source : "Author's Afterword". "Cordelia's Honor". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.
“People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is.”
“Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.”
“Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It is a worldview.”

Source : Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.37, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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