"Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always, for every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting, after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes."

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Source : Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.128, Knopf

Marge Piercy

#Long Quotes #Growth Quotes #Digging Quotes

“I feel badly for them, not sorry, but badly, because I think they've been given poor breaks and difficult, not sufficient opportunity to be who they are and sort of put into that straitjacket with the tie, and all of the things that is really built like a straitjacket when you look at it, and tied up in a sort of a way where their purpose had to be slimmed down to just certain things, and function pared down to the linear, and it is very difficult for men.”
“I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.”
“A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.”
“My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.”
“Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in oneâ€™s own castle.”
“True faith manifests itself through our actions.”
“There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.”
“Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of womenâ€™s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.”

Source : Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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