"The future cannot blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world."

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Source : Susan Cooper (1977). “Silver on the Tree”, Simon & Schuster

Susan Cooper

#Caring Quotes #Past Quotes #Fire Quotes

“When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."”
“I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.”
“People used to say to my friend Mary, a quadriplegic, 'You still have your mind.' She would say, 'I still have my body.' The world tells me to divorce myself from my flesh, to live in my head. ... I didn't want to be fleshless.”
“Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?”
“The business of government is justice.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins
“In the United States, rising esteem for the military in uniform corresponds to the growing militarization of the society as a whole. All of this despite repeated revelations of the illegality and immorality of the military's own incarceration systems, from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib, whose systematic practices border on if not actually constitute torture.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Everything is just now. Your existence is just now. Just timeless Now. All the rest is just a dream due to conditioning and memory.”
“We'll look enough like we do now to recognise each other, identify each other and know each other!”

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