Focus On The Ripples Quotes & Sayings

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world. — Gloria Steinem

We can find peace among ourselves, when we find peace with nature. — Lailah Gifty Akita

this is actualy a poem

we have been called
naive
as if it were a dirty word,
whe have been called
innocent
as though with shame
our cheeks should burn
so
we visit with
the careful idols
of cynisism
to learn to sneer
and pant and walk
so as not to feel the scales
of judgement rub wrongly
but we say
some things must
remain simple
some things must remain
untouched
and pure
lest we all forget
the legacy we begot us
the health of our origins
the poetry of our fundemental selves — Jewel

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers — Leigh Hunt

I wear a lot of Brioni and Ferragamo and Dolce, all of those kind of things. — Gerard Butler

Whenever we take the focus off ourselves and move it outward, we benefit. Life's most fortunate ironies are that what's best for the long run is best now, and selflessness serves our interests far better than selfishness. The wider our circle of considerations, the more stable we make the world - and the better the prospects for human experience and for all we might wish. The core message of each successive widening: we are one. The geometry of the human voyage is not linear; it's those ripples whose circles expand to encompass self, other, community, Life, and time. — Carl Safina

When the life gives you lemon, simply sell them and buy something sweet like chocolate — Samuel Ariel Parker

We've got about as much chance of communing with the dead as we do of sitting in Parliament. — Libba Bray