Elworthy Quotes

#1. We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

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#2. Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.

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#3. I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

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#4. Your 'hara' is here, where your uterus is if you're a woman, where the tummy sticks out if you're a man, the centre of gravity of the human body. It is the synthesis of our intellect, body and spirit, and by developing our consciousness of it, we can become incredibly rooted.

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#5. Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred,

Wendell Berry

#6. Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

Jimenez Lai

#7. If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

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#8. If you can't stop thinking of it, don't stop working for it.

Jennifer Millikin

#9. Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.

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#10. One by one we come to God, young and old, wealthy and homeless, we are diverse: not one of us is alike. Yet similar, we're all learning to live the life God promised, and longing to be fulfilled.

Danise Jurado

#11. The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

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#12. I think back to what Landon said about heartbreak, that if you don't love the person, they can't break your heart. Hardin repeatedly breaks my heart, even when I don't think there are any more pieces to break.
And I love him. I love Hardin.

Anna Todd

#13. Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together

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#14. I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Andy Warhol

#15. When I grew a little older, and had suitors, I demanded from them rings from the bottom of the sea, or a sword from the depths of the desert, or a golden bough and a thick golden fleece, too, before I allowed even one kiss.

Catherynne M Valente

#16. If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

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#17. A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

Doris Lessing

#18. Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

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#19. Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our political order ...

Jonathan Michel Metzl

#20. To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.

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#21. There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

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#22. I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.'

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#23. This question: 'How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?' has been with me ever since I was a child.

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#24. Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor.

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#25. Change happens at the level of the individual

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#26. Let the violin become a fiddle, boy.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#27. Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

Andre Breton