"No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing."

-- Rumi

#Flower Quotes #Breathing Quotes #Names Quotes

“People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.”
“If you canâ€™t advertise yourself, what hope do you have of advertising anything else?”
“My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.”
“It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.”
“I don't know about one moment that has pivoted my career. I do know that one thing that hit me and made me take a few steps back was a year at Steamboat.”
“Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it.”
“If I dont need the money, I dont work. Im going to spend time with my family and friends, and Im going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.”
“While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.”

Source : Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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