"Welfare reforms and the whole â€œhappyâ€ exploitation movement are not â€œbaby steps.â€ They are big stepsâ€“in a seriously backward direction."

-- Gary L. Francione

#Baby Quotes #Peace Quotes #Welfare Reform Quotes

“The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.”
“But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars-compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.”
“Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!”
“Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.”
“I do think there's something about the digital age that is increasingly dehumanising us. We're in this very weird place where we're being pulled into experiences that aren't really experiences at all.”
“one of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three babies back to their beds, against the odds, unscathed and peaceful. Happiness was a houseful of safe, inert bodies. Actually, it still is.”
“I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.”

Source : Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.165, New Directions Publishing
“Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.”

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