"As you withdraw energy from the city, you are also giving energy back. People are noticing you. You're doing something, you're there, the species around you absorb your presence into it, and you become part of this animate entity called the city."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Iain Sinclair

#Giving Quotes #People Quotes #Energy Quotes

“You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.”
“Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.”

Source : Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.161, Simon and Schuster
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”

Source : Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press
“Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.”
“Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.”
“Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.”
“My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity, grasping life in all of its complex wonder, having the courage to live fully, to love wastefully and to be all that each of us can be and that it will express itself in our national life in more earth centered, justice enhancing and humane ways.”
“Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.”

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