"There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits."

-- Alex Steffen

#Work Quotes #Home Quotes #Decision Quotes

“The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet”

Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”
“It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.”

Source : "Julie Walters: 'Parts for women disappear as you age'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.
“We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.”
“When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.”
“I was shocked to find out that 1 in 4 women are affected by domestic violence at some point in their lifetime. So many women never tell anyone that they are being abused by their partner. I have joined the 'Real Man' Women's Aid campaign to show that real men don't abuse women and that a real man will always stand up against domestic violence.”
“It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.”
“No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.”
“Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer."”

Source : "Ato Essandoh, Bourne Again". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 19, 2016.

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