"If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose."

-- Edward Abbey

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“I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.”
“Striving to better, oft we mar whatâ€™s well.”
“Post-â€‹wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-â€‹pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-â€‹absorption without self-â€‹awareness.”
“Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.”
“Golf is a funny game. It's done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I'm the healthiest idiot in the world.”
“I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.”
“At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven. If so, I was going to reply, You know what? You're right. Fine.”
“Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.”

Source : Moshe Feldenkrais (2011). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais”, p.11, North Atlantic Books

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