"To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before."

Source : Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.87, Hachette UK

Alice Walker

#Pain Quotes #Mean Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in generous measure. Now I demand more of you. Men, money and materials cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits.”

Source : Subhas Chandra Bose, P. D. Saggi (1954). “A Nation's Homage: Life and Work of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose”
“Endings are beginnings-if we allow them to be.”

Source : Laura Day (2006). “Welcome to Your Crisis: How to Use the Power of Crisis to Create the Life You Want”, p.25, Hachette UK
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
“I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials”
“I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.”
“Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.”
“It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.”

Source : John Hughlings Jackson, James Taylor, Sir Gordon Holmes (1958). “Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson: Evaluation and dissolution of the nervous system. Speech. Various papers, addresses and lectures”
“It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human nature, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow.”

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