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Ammon Hennacy

"Too many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions â€” all this effort to change others, when if we really got down to it we could use this energy to change ourselvesâ€¦ We become tired radicals because we use our weakest weapon: the ballot box, where we are always outnumbered, and refuse to use our strongest weapon: spiritual power."

Source : Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.249, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Ammon Hennacy

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“That's my big fear, and not enjoying things as much as I could and realizing actually how awesome life is right now.”

Source : "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.
“I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think the better question is: How do we want sexual mores to shift, and what will that do for the American experience of both consensual and nonconsensual sex?”
“...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.”
“I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.”
“No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.”
“Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car.”
“I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.”

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