"It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard."

-- Alexandra Roach

#Effort Quotes #Important Quotes #Overboard Quotes

“Im busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesnt appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.”
“Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.”

Source : "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.
“Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.”

Source : "Honor the Earth: The Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides". Short documentary narrated by Winona LaDuke, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2013.
“Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“A meeting is an occasion when people gather together, some to say what they do not think, and others not to say what they really do.”
“Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.”
“I love going to movie theaters, even in the era of movies on-demand and Netflix. When you are in a movie theater, no one can reach you by phone or other means.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.”

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