Hi all
Wanted to share the following with you to keep you motivated:
"We are each absolutely essential,
each totally irreplaceable.
Each of us is the swing vote
in the bitter election battle now being waged
between our best and our worst possibilities"
(Leonard Peltier in John-Paul Flintoff "How to Change the World", MacMillan, 2012, p. 8)
"Shake off this sadness and recover your spirit
Sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate that brushes your heel as it turns going by
...to live is to work, and the only thing that lasts is the work
start then, turn to the work
Throw yourself like seed as you walk
and into your own field
don't turn your face for that would be to turn it to death
and don't let the past weigh down your motion...
from your work you will be able one day to gather yourself"
(M. de Unamuno "Throw Yourself like Seed")
"Each new generation,
every human being,
as he becomes conscious of being inserted between
an infinite past and an infinite future
must discover
and ploddingly pave a new path of thought"
(Hannah Arendt. The Life of the Mind)
:-)
Hi All
An additional quote which is one of my favourites:
When Augustine of Canterbury requested permission to abandon his mission to the English, Gregory the Great's response was as follows:
"It would have been better
not to have undertaken
a noble task
than to turn back deliberately
from what you have begun,
so it is right that
you should carry on with all diligence
this good work which you have begun
with the help of the Lord"
(Bede's H.E. 1.23)
ie if you begin something noble, finish it! (up)
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