"How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live; we donâ€™t care; we donâ€™t protect what God created for everyone, and we end up unable even to care for one another."

-- Pope Francis

#World Quotes #Care Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”

Source : "Countryman: A Summary of Belief". Book by Hal Borland, 1965.
“(He) felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondered if they could ever be friends again.”
“I want to be known for good work first. A good story and good delivery is just that - period.”
“I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.”
“I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.”
“Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.”
“How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1858). “A Life-drama, and Other Poems”, p.69
“I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,”

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