"Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves."

-- Black Elk

#Moving Quotes #Native American Quotes #Circles Quotes

“It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.”

Source : Scholastic Corporation Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.
“Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?”

Source : "When the Towers Fell" by Galway Kinnell, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2002.
“Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift-and keep singing.”
“The next chamber is full of songbirds, if I remember right. Their music is like turtleweed. It will put you to sleep if you listen to it. They sleep most of the time, so the best thing is to pass through without waking them up. If they do awaken, then you must sing loud enough to drown out their music." "Great," Han said. "Whose idea was that?" "It seemed like a good idea at the time," Crow said. "I was an excellent singer.”
“Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued”
“She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.”
“American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.”
“What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?”

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