“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ~ Alice Walker
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"We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings." ~ Pema Chodron
"For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected." ~ Jane Goodall
What we mean by equality between the sexes is not just that men will no longer oppress women. We also want men to no longer be oppressed by other men and women no longer to be oppressed by other women.
-- He Zhen
"There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust." ~ Elsa Triolet
"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." ~ Carl Jung
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"时间在户外有一种奇异的面貌。在太阳之下，时间好像是静止的。只有当每一分钟都是一种对身体的折磨时，你才会发现原来一个小时里真的有六十分钟，而且下一个小时并不比这个小时更接近黄昏。受钟表支配的室内工作者们从来没有跟时间正面交锋过。他们的秒针在打字机的“哒哒”声中走得飞快。当打字机静下来时，他们的一天也结束了。我们这些在户外工作的人，每天都在跟永恒作斗争，其间只有我们的手是忙碌的；我们的头脑在日出和日落之间可能已经变老又再度年轻；未来可能在一个小时中被重写，乌鸫的一首歌还没唱完，希望可能就被杀死又重生过了。我们确切地知道一天有多长。在几个月漫长的煎熬后，我们因为许多的沉默和许多的惊奇而苍老困惑，回到坐在办公室的朋友身边时却发现他们完全没有变化，只一脸单纯地从时间的表面滑过。"
— Stella Benson: 独居, pp. 127-128
@reading #reading #quote #在读引用 #bookstodon #StellaBenson #LivingAlone
"To practice Extreme Self-Care, you must learn to love yourself unconditionally, accept your imperfections, and embrace your vulnerabilities." ~ Cheryl Richardson
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"Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition." ~ Victoria Woodhull
“Healthy boundaries are not walls. They are gates and fences that allow you to enjoy the beauty of your own garden.” ~ Lydia Hall
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." ~ Benjamin Franklin
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"A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don't even know." ~ John Legend
"Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry." ~ Alice Walker
🔥 Consent-based quoting has arrived in Bonfire!
The latest Bonfire Social release implements Mastodon's FEP-044f, enabling you to:
✨ Use boundaries to define who can quote your post, who must request first, or who cannot request at all.
✨ Quote — or request consent to quote — someone else’s post.
✨ Give or withdraw consent at any time.
A first step toward making quoting work smoothly and respectfully across the fediverse.
Read more about 1.0 RC3: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/
What is property? It is robbery!
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
"I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self." ~ Dalia Mogahed
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"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter." ~ Rachel Carson
Apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all.
"When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is. ~ Jimmy Reid
"The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets." ~ Cynthia P. Schneider
“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ~ Gloria Steinem
"The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them." ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." ~ Maya Angelou
