“It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.” IfsKnowsWayFirstsEndsShowsLastsJoySocialBehindsAchievementClubsListsSurvivorGrandkidsObituaryWork Place Author:Regina Brett
“I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.” MenLittlesPhilosophyJoySpiritSocialStarsWaterCommunityDarknessGenerationsAirRocksRevolutionProudOne DaySkinsRoundsHungerFolksWanderEmpiresLabourMetalsGrainSunlightBlindnessLight And DarknessLight And DarkFlickerSwarmsLuciditySocial RevolutionOlafIntermittent Book:To the End of Time Source: To the End of Time
“Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.” HumansIdeasSoulMatterFactsMovingLawPoliticalJoyLiteratureSocialCausesConditionsEffectsExpressionAccountsRegardRefuseFixedComplexityWheelsNew IdeasSocial ChangeDomainHuman SoulGrindCause And EffectHuman ThoughtChariotsStationary Author:Emma Goldman
“The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.” GivingDoeArtPoliticalJoySpiritLiteratureSocialPoetReaderIdealsExcuseUpliftingBoredOur TimeParadiseGrantsPreacherStorytellerIntrigueEntertainersTediousNo Excuses Book:The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer Source: The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
“My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.” HumansMatterSpiritualJoySocialSidesWealthJusticeAdviceMaterialsPersonalityBattleFinalsHave FaithEducateOrganizeFaith In YourselfHuman PersonalityAgitateFinal WordsHave Faith In YourselfWords Of AdviceReclamation Author:B. R. Ambedkar
“Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about the integration of minority and immigrant groups along the way. This is an important work and a joy to read.” WayImportantStatesAmericaJoySocialUnitedUnited StatesGroupsTheoryFindingsSignificantContributionMinoritiesImmigrantsConcreteIntegrationIlluminatingMeccaImportant WorkSocial TheoryEthnography Author:Eboo Patel