"Everywhere I go, I meet people ready for change. People who are fed up with the exhaustion that comes from devoting one's life to the work-watch-spend treadmill. People who know in their hearts that it's wrong to treat the planet and whole groups of people as disposable. People who are challenging the bogus stories we've been fed for years and are writing their own about hope and love and working together to build a better future for everyone."

-- Annie Leonard

#Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes #Years Quotes

“The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others.”

Source : Jean Decety (2012). “Empathy: From Bench to Bedside”, p.264, MIT Press
“If weâ€™re free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it,”
“I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality.”

Source : "Schoenberg: A Critical Biography". Book by Willi Reich, p. 34, 1971.
“Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.”
“I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.”
“Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure or survival through work, the integration of motherhood and the world of work is a source of ambivalence, struggle, and conflict for the great majority of women.”

Source : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)
“The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.”

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