Davi Kopenawa Quotes

#1. Why is it taking so long to believe that if we hurt Nature, we hurt ourselves?

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#2. The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we'll all die.

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#3. If everyone followed the rules, we wouldn't be human ... And I'd choose that than being a Robot over any day.

Jet Raymond Hodgkin

#4. Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

Byron Katie

#5. Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

Norman Mailer

#6. For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will.

Jonah Lomu

#7. Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Edward De Bono

#8. If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#9. Dare for a greater life, you will get it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. The action you will take today, will define tomorrow.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Idle and superfluous all day long, all at once they had become visible, needed, and

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#12. All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of Perpetual Youth - the only rainbow on life's dark cloud.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#13. There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#14. Knowing he was suffering pained me. That's the way love tangles you up. I couldn't stop loving him, and couldn't shut off the feelings of wanting to care for him - but I also didn't have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me.

Paula McLain

#15. That's the true test of a town, or of a king. A lord who cheats an ugly old witch will cheat his own folk by and by. Stop him while you can, before you grow used to him.

Peter S. Beagle

#16. Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#17. So then you're free?'
'Yes, I'm free,' said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

Franz Kafka

#18. Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

Gustave Flaubert

#19. Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of the world, or the way you think things should be.

Ken Keyes Jr.