"All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation."

-- Christine Lagarde

#Responsibility Quotes #Loss Quotes #Gains Quotes

“Listen more often than you speak.”
“My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.”

Source : "Abortion and Reverence for Life: Grappling with My Father’s ‘Other Job’" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.
“After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.”
“Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.”
“It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.”

Source : "The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus".
“Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.”
“[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”
“I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of the betrayer, and neither is pleasant because both roles involve pain, inflicting or absorbing it.”

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