Tassinari Quotes & Sayings

Feeling at home anywhere on earth, and a foreigner even in the country where I was born, I consider myself an earthling, a citizen of the world.
I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind so many of us still are. Our planet is remarkably abundant and there's more than enough for us all.
It is greed and shortsightedness that create the illusion of scarcity. I have lived through tremendous adventures and survived only because other people risked their lives for me. Realising how interconnected and interdependent we all are, I am neither shy or embarrassed when it is time for me lean on another to ask for help. And when I have the opportunity to help another, I view it as my duty and privilege. — Yossi Ghinsberg

O Lord, deliver me from this lust of always vindicating myself." Such a need for constant vindication destroys our soul's faith in God. Don't say, "I must explain myself," or, "I must get people to understand." Our Lord never explained anything - He left the misunderstandings or misconceptions of others to correct themselves. — Oswald Chambers

Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have ... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost. — Thomas Eisner

I've become a lantern bearer, lighting the path this country will take. — Nahoko Uehashi

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody. — Assata Shakur

Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune. — Sophocles

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence ... the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history. — Andre Trocme

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself. — Rose Byrne

There is no sin in complaining to God, but much wickedness in complaining of him. — John Flavel

Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything. — Sam Shepard

I opened my mouth to ask him what our excursion meant to him. Then I wondered if I really wanted to know, because once you have knowledge, there's no going back. — Kate Perry

Children with autism are colourful - they are often very beautiful and, like the rainbow, they stand out. — Adele Devine