"We are never trapped unless we choose to be."

--

Anais Nin

“Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.33, Penguin
“We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.”
“YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!”
“The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The United Nations has no vested interest in the status quo. It seeks a more secure world, a better world, a world of progress for all peoples. In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have equality and equal rights.”

Source : "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.
“Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive.”
“The greatest evil is physical pain.”
“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”

Source : Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.71, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“You can't fault people for who they vote for, who they don't vote for.”

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