"Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance."

-- Janet Frame

#Irrelevance Quotes #Law Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.”
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
“And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces.”
“To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable.”
“Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.”

Source : Margaret Drabble (2014). “The Millstone”, p.5, Canongate Books
“The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.”
“Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.”

Source : Jane Grey SWISSHELM (1853). “Letters to Country Girls”, p.57
“The real sign of His blessings is if you can have more and more happiness inside. Learn always to be happy; to be happy with the happiness of God. Even- minded and cheerful. This is the fastest route to divine bliss.”

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