"What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength."

-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Responsibility Quotes #Hands Quotes #Dignity Quotes

“Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.”
“No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.”
“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.”
“Difficulty is inevitable. Drama is a choice.”
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

Source : Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.40, Vintage
“We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting.”
“We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.”

Source : "The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991". Book by Eric J. Hobsbawm, 1994.
“Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.”

Source : John C. Maxwell (2012). “The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential”, p.74, Hachette UK

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