"Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down."

-- Peter Kingsley

#World Quotes #Upside Down Quotes #Turns Quotes

“No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.”

Source : Irene Thomas (1979). “The Bandsman's Daughter: An Autobiography”
“I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.”
“I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out their Rock star dreams as JEM was pretty much epic.”
“As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the right person.”
“Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.”
“As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live.”
“HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.”
“Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?”

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