“Karl Max said: “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that if you want to change the world you’d better try to understand it. That doesn’t mean listening to a talk or reading a book, though that’s helpful sometimes. You learn from participating. You learn from others. You learn from the people you’re trying to organize. We all have to gain the understanding and the experience to formulate and implement ideas.”
Noam Chomsky
(Source: sundays)
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
Nelson Mandela
(Source: myquotelibrary)
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.”
Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol: In His Own Words
(Source: nagging)
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
Auguste Rodin
(Source: joeasla)
“You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person.”
Scott Sorrell
(Source: quote-book)
“We cannot call ourselves civilized until we remove our dependency on the suffering of others.”
Momentum (Mercy)
(Source: myheartsinksdeep)
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.”
Paulo Coelho
(Source: troubled)
“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self transformation.”
Lao Tzu
(Source: heartmindawakening)
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