"Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself."

-- Thomas Jefferson

#Volunteer Quotes #Wounds Quotes

“Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.”

Source : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.126, Transaction Publishers
“I'm not interested myself personally right now in doing anything. We went there. We lost a lot of blood, a lot of treasure, did a lot for them. They weren't interested in us staying. They made a choice.”
“I try not to limit myself. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media. That ensures your longevity as an artist and prevents you from getting bored with yourself and, hopefully, prevents people from getting bored with you.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.”
“The great thing about change, is that it absolutely, positively, always means things are going to get even better. Even when you don't know how.”
“What is death all about? What is life all about?”

Source : Livia Bitton-Jackson (2011). “I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust”, p.242, Simon and Schuster
“The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.”
“This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?”

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