"I'm trying to practice owning less stuff."

-- Alexandra Paul

#Practice Quotes #Trying Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events - the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves.”
“You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment.”
“Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.”
“The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of our Constitution, was horrified when Congress appropriated $15,000 to help French refugees. He said, 'I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.' Tragically, today's Americans would run Madison out of town on a rail.”
“I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.”
“There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.”

Source : Manju Kapur (2010). “A Married Woman”, p.186, Faber & Faber
“Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite failures, through the ripple effect of financial crisis and war, aren't Americans.”
“I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here.”

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