"One must always be civic-minded."

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Source : "Words to Live by Hiroo Onoda" by Judit Kawaguchi, archive.is. January 16, 2007.

Hiroo Onoda

#Civic Minded Quotes #Civics Quotes

“It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.”
“When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.”
“She walks away, and I am too stunned to follow her. At the end of the hallways she turns and says, "Have a piece of cake for me, all right? The chocolate. It's delicious." She smiles a strange, twisted smile, and adds," I love you, you know." And then she's gone. I stand alone in the blue light coming from the lamp above me, and I understand: She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallways. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was a dauntless.”
“I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.”
“I donâ€™t get wrapped up in technique and the like. I have a simple rule and that is to spend as much time in the location as possible. You canâ€™t expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. And in fact I donâ€™t believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. Thatâ€™s why I love it so much.”
“In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.”
“My mind soarsand whirlsin a danceof wild fearand graceful hope.”

Source : Margarita Engle (2010). “The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba”, p.135, Macmillan

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