"Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?"

-- Rachel Carson

#Vision Quotes #Demand Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.”
“Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.”
“What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.”
“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
“The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.”
“And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”

Source : Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.40, Penguin
“Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.”
“Okay, so let's run faster.”

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