"The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ..."

-- Jane Addams

#Cities Quotes #Effort Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.”
“While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.”
“History is on the side of the regulators.”
“There's a point in everyone's career where they're not going to be playing as well as they should be. You just have to keep you confidence and not hang your head and realize that you're going to figure it out and that you're going to get better and that you're going to learn. Learn from all your mistakes.”
“If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.”
“No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged without any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you....”
“Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.”
“I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.”

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