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When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I never really understood the word “loneliness”. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean and with nature. — Bjork

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. — Henry David Thoreau

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it. — Fake Buddha

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires. — Vandana Shiva, The Future of Food and Seed

Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before. — Brian Eno, Oblique Strategies

Can we please stop talking about revolution? The word simply means going around in circles. — Inspired by and paraprhased from Lewis Elbinger

We are generally agreeable to meeting new people and eating their food. — Daniel Spector

For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong.“ — H.L. Mencken via “Debt: The First 5,000 Years”

If kids grow kale, kids eat kale. — Ron Finley, A guerilla gardener in South Central LA

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions. — David Holmgren

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. — Mark Twain

Two people under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, who are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do they part. — George Bernard Shaw on marriage

The boys didn’t know where they were going. They didn’t. Not really. They just knew that they wanted to go. — Carolyn Cassady

I have always been considered too ignorant or too stupid to run my own life in my own way. I was, and still am, judged incompetent. Leave it to the expert: do as I am told, and all will be well. It isn't. It never was and it never will be. The experts are still at it, each with his own little bit of specialized knowledge which he claims gives him the right to direct me along lines which I have always known instinctively are wrong. Since experience has taught me to trust myself and distrust the expert, I now declare a state of open revolt. It is a private revolt and owes nothing to any man, group or party. It is strictly Me vesus Anyone-you-care-to-mention. — Lawrence Moreley, The pogressive Anarchist

If you're mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you're doing it wrong. — Azealia Banks

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. Time and time again, conflicts are resolved through shifts that were unimaginable at the start. — Nelson Mandela, (Adam Kahane in “Solving Tough Problems”)

How does one learn good judgement? Experience. How does one get experience? Bad judgement. — Adam Kahane, “Solving Tough Problems”

We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble. — George Soros

It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful what we wish for: our denuded networked selves don’t look more free, they just look more owned. — Zadie Smith

Facebook is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to read the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. — Christopher P. Locke (reconstruction of a TS Eliot quote)

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. — André Gide

The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things. The revolution—that change that takes place—will not be televised. — Gil Scott-Heron

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. ― Tom Waits

Politically I want only that the children have bright eyes, the rivers be clean, food and sex be available and nobody be pushed around. — Paul Goldman, “Growing up Absurd”

“Romanticizing the past” is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future. - Paul Kingsnorth

Watching people struggle in their [spiritual] practice is like watching people punch themselves in the head. — Alan Chapman, “A Little Death”

He wouldn't take “yes” for an answer. — Kenneth Clark describing Leonardo Da Vinci