"War is too strange to be processed alone."

#War Quotes #Strange Quotes

“Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold,' but rather, 'How many people did you help?”
“Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.”
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
“The status quo is a product of our culture or our culture is a product of the status quo - I'm sure which is the effect and which is the product - there is probably a feedback loop there that is mutually reinforcing. But we have a culture that says "Hey, look around. This place called Earth was created for you and you can do anything you want with it."”
“In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it's no wonder we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more we're worth”

Source : Ellen Sue Stern (1991). “The Indispensable Woman”, Bantam
“If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.”
“There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't.”
“Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn.”

Source : Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”

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