"If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality."

-- Aviva Chomsky

#Real Quotes #Goal Quotes #Migration Quotes

“The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.”

Source : Carol P. Christ (2015). “Diving Deep & Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest”, p.33, Beacon Press
“The young donÂ’t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.”
“All that matters is that you keep going no matter what”
“Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking about for one day, one clear, clean, sweet day in a good world in the midst of our living. Yachts run before an unfelt gust with bagnecked pelicans riding above them, the city their twitching backdrop, all blocks and points of mirror light down to the water's edge.”
“Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others.”
“Rewards can deliver a short-term boostâ€”just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you cranking for a few more hours. But the effect wears offâ€”and, worse, can reduce a personâ€™s longer-term motivation to continue the project.”
“What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?”
“Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.”

Source : Nyanaponika Thera (2005). “The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipaṭṭhāna : a Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, with an Anthology of Relevant Texts Translated from the Pali and Sanskrit”, p.25, Buddhist Publication Society

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