"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

-- Gro Harlem Brundtland

#Needs Quotes #Generations Quotes #Development Quotes

“It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.”
“I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love--I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speakfor me.”

Source : Sarah Fielding (1904). “The Adventures of David Simple: Containing an Account of His Travels Through the Cities of London and Westminster in the Search of a Real Friend”
“You resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration.”
“Give me B movies or give me death!”
“Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.”
“How does silence find its way out of that noisy, chattering mind? That endless maze of thought, concept, opinion, belief? How does perfect silence and pure consciousness find its way out of that maze? Very simply: Bring yourself present with something that's HERE, in the moment. Then you'll be HERE again.”
“I came to love, I came into my own.”
“True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests.”

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