"Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit."

-- Howard Mumford Jones

#Optimism Quotes #Progress Quotes #Energy Quotes

“The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening.”
“One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.”
“Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.”
“...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.”
“Clutter forces the brain to consume energy. Create uncluttered environments instead.”
“We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)”
“The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.”
“It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.266, Feminist Press at CUNY

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