“We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.” HumanityTakenSeaPlanetsDemandRiversFishesBoatLakesFishingMarineKeepersFishermanStewardsHigh Seas Book:The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing Source: The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing
“The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.” ChildrenMightAbleTogetherSportsTakenDemandAchievementPerceptionAdultsCapacityHarmContemporaryInnocentMaturityAcademicExceedCompetentParticipatingAdaptiveAcademic AchievementCompetitive Sports Author:David Elkind
“As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.” NeedsMeanLongOrderResponsibilityTakenConditionsEffectsDemandFlowAbsolutesSurrenderSatisfiedSettingSettingsLiberationPerceiveOver YouRequirementsLiberatingMake You HappyDiscovering YourselfLove And Wisdom Author:Adyashanti
“Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?” WorldWealthBreakStruggleTakenRightsWillingDemandAmbitionSlaveWorkersGravesChainsHeightSubmissionCradleParasitesEconomic InequalityLabour Day Author:Joe Hill
“The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.” FeelsLongPastDesireTurnsBornTakenEnvironmentGenerationsChildhoodEventsDramaDemandConsequenceLaborEternityPursueProvidenceRippleResonanceSpunHeredityWrong TurnRoad Not TakenHeredity And Environment Author:William Faulkner
“Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?” HateTakenLove YouDemandI HateClaimsOur FamilyBroccoliPicture Taken Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash