Be joyful / though you have considered all the facts. —Wendell Berry More about this quote Tags: facts joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we should be so lucky as to touch the lives of many, so be it. But if our lot is no more than the setting of a table, or the tending of a garden, or showing a child a path in a wood, our lives are no less worthy. —Kent Nerburn More about this quote Tags: children garden worthiness child-rearing keeping house Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts. . . . To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: heart mankind idealism longing water men and women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Revolution does not begin with a group. It begins from the heart. —Shahla Khan More about this quote Tags: heart revolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others. —Eleanor Roosevelt More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fight Apathy. Or Don't. —Graffito More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. —Ivern Ball More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused. . . . If one feels that there is nothing "we" can do — but who is that "we"? — and nothing "they" can do either — and who are "they"? — then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic —Susan Sontag More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights. —Pearl S. Buck More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done. —Author unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You must begin by assuming responsibility. And you alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry More about this quote Tags: life ownership resposibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. —Terry Hands More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. —Rebecca West More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. —W. Edwards Deming More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think we risk becoming the best-informed society that has ever died of ignorance. —Rubén Blades More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email