"When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live."

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Source : Marilou Awiakta (1993). “Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom”, Fulcrum Pub

Marilou Awiakta

#Life Quotes #Mother Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.”
“But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.”
“I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin when we are barely old enough to stand upright. I have no memory of finding it hard. Indeed, I have no memory of it at all.”

Source : Sarah Dunant (2006). “In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel”, p.264, Random House
“I dedicate my love and whole heart this Memorial Day to my Dad, a soldier, who like many others, suffers in silence with pride and honor.”
“By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.”
“What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the fact that the patron saint of modern liberalism, John Stuart Mill, thought that barbarian peoples like the Indians were unfit for self-rule.”
“Once Iâ€™m obsessed with somebody, Iâ€™m terrified of them instantly. Iâ€™m not scared of themâ€”Iâ€™m scared of me and how I will react,”
“You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.”

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