“We are attracted to people who express the qualities we deny or repress in ourselves.” Quote by Shakti Gawain
“Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become - economically, politically, and personally - the more erotic we are. Freedom is a lot sexier than dependency.” DesireDefinedDesirableEroticLiberatedDependencySexinessLiberated Woman Author:Naomi Wolf
“...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead of giving a rifle, develop an educational system that is not about conflict and violence, but one that promotes respect for values, for life, and respect for one's elders. This requires a huge investment. Yet if we can invest in a different vision of peaceful coexistence, I think we can change the world, because every problem has a nonviolent answer.” IfsThinkingWorldGivingDifferentProblemSchoolValuesCommunityAnswersVisionViolenceHugeConflictInvestmentEducationalPeacefulChanging The WorldAdequateEldersRiflesEducational SystemCoexistencePeaceful Coexistence Author:Rigoberta Menchu
“Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or her country of origin, religion, descent, or any other ground.” HumansCountryGovernmentCertainHurtRightsDignityUniversalHuman RightsContraryDiscriminationTortureArbitraryDescentHuman DignityDetention Author:Shirin Ebadi
“The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.” WinningUnderstandingMethodDefeatNonviolenceReconciliationOppressorsAftermathHumiliate Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to sensitize the word to an important cause, to defend certain values.” GivingImportantEyeCertainValuesCausesResponsibilitySpecialMessagesGive MeImpactPhotographTransmitPublic Eye Author:Princess Diana
“A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.” NeedsWritingWellsSeemsNaturalDifficultyFelicityFluent Author:Joseph Joubert
“A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.” WellsRealIndividualFictionRootsDetailsScalesForestsNovelistsConvinceImaginaryLeafsRenderingConvince Us Author:Laura Miller
“A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.” BeliefCommonConsequenceImportanceCommon SensePreservesNovelistsChildlike Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.” WantBookGardenLibraryCollections Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero