"Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is."

-- Brenda Shoshanna

#Change Quotes #Bases Quotes

“If you do not clean up your sociaty now, therefore the legacy you have left for your children is nothing other than an unjust society.”
“I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!”
“Where nature with accustomed round Sweeps and garnishes the ground With kindly beauty, warm or cold Alternate seasons never old: Heathen, how furiously you rage, Cursing this blood and brimstone age, How furiously against your will You kill and kill again, and kill: All thought of peace behind you cast, Till like small boys with fear aghast, Each cries for God to understand, 'I could not help it, it was my hand.”
“A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations.”

Source : "A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy". Book by John Herschel, 1830.
“Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.”
“We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder Â… whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" Â… The very ideal that holds a democracy together--the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good--is going quickly by the wayside.”
“Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.”
“Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

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