"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."

-- Teresa of Avila

#Running Quotes #Humility Quotes #Water Quotes

“What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.”

Source : "James Hansen on the Tar Sands Pipeline Protest, the Obama Administration and Intergenerational Justice". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2011.
“Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle it rejects all absolute schemes and concepts. It does not believe in any absolute truth, or in definite final goals for human development, but in an unlimited perfectibility of social arrangements and human conditions which are always straining after higher forms of expression, and to which for this reason one can assign no definite terminus nor set any fixed goal.”

Source : Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.15, AK Press
“Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.”

Source : Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.111, Columbia University Press
“I'm also influenced by all the places I've traveled since then: I've been to Hollywood and great fashion shows and seen the world. I have a different perspective, and I mix that up.”
“. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing.”
“Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder the bird has become the symbol for happiness. Before the farmer begins to plough the wet earth, often while snow is still on the ground, this hardy little minstrel is making himself very much at home in our orchards and gardens while waiting for a mate to arrive from the South.”
“...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.”
“A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.”

Source : "Torture & Resistance in Iran: Memoirs of the Woman Guerrilla Ashraf Dehghani". Book by Ashraf Dihqani, 1978.

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