Scarifying Soil Quotes & Sayings

I'm sure it was a good house in its time as well, but sometimes what is left behind when something has been lost is even better than the thing that came before. — Susanna Kearsley

Born to be a natural artist you love or hate but can't deny
While us minions in our millions tumble into history's chasm
We might have a couple of laughs but we're still wastes of protoplasm — Jeffrey Lewis

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it. — Iyanla Vanzant

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. — George Eliot

Zehrunisa didn't know Abdul's age herself. Seventeen was what she'd said before the burning, when people asked her, but he could have been twenty-seven, for all she knew. You didn't keep track of a child's years when you were fighting daily to keep him from starving, as she and many other Annawadi mothers had been doing when their teenagers were young. — Katherine Boo

May the forests be with you and with your children. — Daniel Quinn

In an age of widespread communication and accountability, people expect political participation and accountability much more than they did in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. The only way the demand for meaningful political participation and choice can be suppressed is to constrain liberty - Larry Diamond, Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), Chapter 1 ('Defining and Developing Democracy'). p. 4 — Larry Diamond