"Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men."

-- Martha Griffiths

#Men Quotes #Benefits Quotes #Earth Quotes

“A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.”

Source : Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.101, Lulu.com
“One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.”
“We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity â€” a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.”
“It's important that the United States not forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001. I assure you, I'm not going to forget them.”
“Hey!" I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. "I was talking to him!" Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. "No, you were inciting him to stab you with a toothpick. Again, the difference is small, but I think it matters.”
“If you're going to write about something it becomes a damn sight more interesting than if you're not going to write about it, because you engage with it actively in a way that you wouldn't if you were just passing through or if you were going to St Helens to visit family or if it was a place that made you resentful because you'd always wanted to escape from there.”
“Some of us can accept others right where they are a lot more easily than we can accept ourselves. We feel that compassion is reserved for someone else, and it never occurs to us to feel it for ourselves. My experience is that by practicing without 'shoulds,' we gradually discover our wakefulness and our confidence. Gradually, without any agenda except to be honest and kind, we assume responsibility for being here in this unpredictable world, in this unique moment, in this precious human body.”
“The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.”

Source : Florence Ellinwood Allen (1965). “To Do Justly”, Cleveland : Press of Western Reserve University

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