Vasto Quotes

#1. Sweet and clean out-of-doors, and I need purifying. My wanderings disturb Lucy. She is always on the lookout for me, in the hall or living-room or on the porch, especially if I do not come back until after dark. She needn't

Olive Higgins Prouty

#2. In the practice of any craft, we are less concerned with the quantity of the product than with its quality, and less concerned with the product than with the artisan.

Lanza Del Vasto

#3. What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

#4. I made a living out of being a class clown.

Shannon Hoon

#5. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get. - Anonymous

David Allen

#6. Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.

Lanza Del Vasto

#7. The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life.

Lanza Del Vasto

#8. You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow.

Lanza Del Vasto

#9. Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

Pope Francis

#10. When there is pain
There is sadness
When there is sadness
There is hatred
One who fall from this will never rise up

Ax Vasto

#11. Are you here to kill me? The question startled her, but with the day I was having, I thought it was justified.

Kalayna Price

#12. The machine enslaves, the hand sets free.

Lanza Del Vasto

#13. There was a debt to be paid. And I was the method of extraction. Plain and simple. I'm a Hawk. She's a Weaver. That was all I needed to know.

Pepper Winters

#14. For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

Payne Stewart

#15. Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion.

Lanza Del Vasto

#16. No man is give leave of that voice. The kid spat into the fire and bent to his work. I aint heard no voice, he said. When it stops, said Tobin, you'll know you've heard it all your life.

Cormac McCarthy

#17. A peacemaker does not mean a peaceful person.

Lanza Del Vasto

#18. It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#19. Lead the way Batman." "Batman?" She winked. "Your Mom's a wealth of information. "Aww fuck." Seriously? She'd been here for what, sixty seconds?

Kim Carmody