"This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom."

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Source : Benjamin Zephaniah (2011). “Refugee Boy”, p.124, Bloomsbury Publishing

Benjamin Zephaniah

#Borders Quotes #Planets Quotes

“Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows." Angels and Demons p. 484”
“The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego-your need to posses and control-and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous-lar ge souled.”

Source : Sam Keen (1995). “Hymns to an unknown God: awakening the spirit in everyday life”, Bantam
“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people donâ€™t talk anymore, they donâ€™t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.”
“I find that my touchstones go out the window, the routines, the things that you do to keep you grounded. Then when I'm out of work I have too much time. The trick is not to get lost surfing the Internet.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“What am I doing here?”
“The fewer the words, the better the prayer.”
“Whatever's lost, it first was won.”
“What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.”

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