"Civilization can never be sustainable."

-- Derrick Jensen

#Civilization Quotes

“What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image....”
“I just love seeing people embrace freedom, faith, and courage in the face of enormous odds.”
“In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand.... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.”
“A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.”
“Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.”
“I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.”
“A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.”
“Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”

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