"If you really want it, you need to really work for it."

-- Jesse McCartney

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“Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may be somewhat expressed as follows: knowledge must die and rise again as will and create itself anew each day as a free person.”
“Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet I suspect...they do not care. They donâ€™t want to see what is done in their name. They do not want to look at the rows of flag-draped coffins, the horribly maimed bodies and faces of veterans, or the human suffering in the blighted and deserted former manufacturing centers. It is too upsetting. Government and corporate censorship is therefore welcomed and appreciated.”
“In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.”
“Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.”
“We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.”

Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.215, Zed Books
“A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth, 'Tis always active on the side of truth.”
“Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it...”
“We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.”

Source : Thubten Chodron (2016). “Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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