Try find some meaning in them yourself
Enjoy!
"I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating."
-Cry, The Beloved Country
"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
- Cry, The Beloved Country
“undo the knots in us and permit life to flow again”
-Jean Vanier, Becoming Human
"This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else."
- Ursula Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible.
- Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Some really good ones here - the first one always sticks with me as it is a rephrasing of a quote from Gandhi... Here's another of my favourites:
ReplyDeleteIt is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than “try to be a little kinder.” -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)