"I know it sounds old-fashioned to say we're too materialistic in the West, but happiness does not derive exclusively from things, and yet we seem to be structuring our whole society around things. I think that's partially why Westerners are joining ISIS and going to Syria. We have lost our way in the West in holding up a vision for humanity that is not exclusively shaped by materialism."

-- Sarah Chayes

#Thinking Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Loving and appreciating each individual, including ourselves, as the showing forth of the One Creative Principle, takes a great deal of humility and this includes sharing.”
“Acting is actually private.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.”

Source : "The Lonely Hunter" l. 24 (1896) See McCullers 1
“We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ed Wood". "Ed Wood", 1994.
“Jesus set us free to live the abundant life by being all that He has created us to be and accomplishing all that He has planned for us to do.”

Source : Sharon Jaynes (2011). “Listening to God Day by Day”, p.220, Harvest House Publishers
“The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...”
“Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.”
“If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.”

Source : Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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