Edin Quotes

#1. Every day is beautiful when you're holding hands with your best friend.

Dave Willis

#2. It's very helpful to realize that being here, sitting in meditation, doing simple everyday things like working, walking outside, talking with people, bathing, using the toilet, and eating, is actually all that we need to be fully awake, fully alive, fully human.

Pema Chodron

#3. Harmony is something we must have with others, but it must start inside us first.

David

#4. Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

Kevin Patterson

#5. When they're laughing at you, their guard is down. When their guard is down, you can kick them in the fracas.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

William Penn

#7. How is it that a solid work ethic is not an adequate defense against extreme poverty?

Kathryn Edin

#8. For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

William Shakespeare

#9. I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.

Rei Kawakubo

#10. Children should be like waffles
you should be able to throw the first one away.

Nancy Mitford

#11. Whether you're working with kindergartners or adults, 8th-graders or college students, you undertake what you do, as educator and activist William Ayers puts it, "with hope and purpose but without guarantees.

Gregory Michie