#ali

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make. ↗

— William Morris

#dead #future #helping #living #make

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#age

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. ↗

— Mary Manin Morrissey

#breath #china #day #every #every day

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#alive #cell #continually #identity #impossibilities

It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people don't care for unreality becoming real. It pricks their well-fed minds, you see, with something like a hunger pang. They prefer the logical stuffiness of expectancy. It is only at certain times that they weaken, letting imagination in. That's the time to get them. (“The Disinheritors”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

#imagination #rationality #reality #unreality #imagination

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#equality #ever #further #opportunity #than

I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college. ↗

— Jamie Moyer

#education #effort #forth #i #probably

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film. ↗

— Jack Nance

#could #few #film #genius #had

Thinking globally does not mean thinking socially. ↗

— Ilkin Santak

#communism #equal-rights #global-thinking #human-rights #liberalism

I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is. ↗

— David Miliband

#britain #bulk #businesspeople #contribution #country