#people

Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is supposed to be okay! I don't play games with people; because people aren't toys. And I don't risk what I don't want to lose; because if I do lose it, it's definitely my loss and not theirs! How short is life, you ask me. Well, life is as short as one drop in eternity. I swim in a single drop in this basin of eternal waters, and after that drop evaporates, it's gone! But then you could argue that if life is just a drop, then why even bother? Well, yes it is a drop, but it's a meaningful drop, an unforgettable drop, and a beautiful one! It's so unforgettable, that when you come back again, if you choose to, you will remember it in your dreams at night! So you see, I don't test people, I don't play games, and I don't risk who and what I don't want to lose. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-living #inspirational-quotes #people #the-value-of-life #the-value-of-people

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#punishment #young-people #youth #children

The Australian aborigines, reckoned to be among the most primitive of races upon evidence that is far from conclusive, have a region that is well-developed. They worship the Earth Mother, and recognise in their graceful, plaintive stories the prior existence of culture heroes as well limned as any in Valhalla. To an amazing degree they feel the reality of the metaphysical world they have created––the dream-time, which is neither a dream nor a period, or if it is a period is one which has no dimension, so that the past and the present exist together. ↗

— Olaf Ruhen

#indigenous-peoples #dreams

On having a backup plan: "Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anywhere my dream needs to go. ↗

— Samantha Steele

#author #books #crazy #dream #follow

Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#education #ignorance #ignorant-people #information #information-is-liberation

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#bothers #call #calling #doing #like

English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are 'who,' not 'what. ↗

— Tomson Highway

#indigenous-peoples #language #nature #equality

Everyone on this planet has a unique experience. Nothing travels the exact same path through time. Therefore everyone and everything in this universe is notable. In my opinion, to say otherwise is more than a little shortsighted and lacks perspective. ↗

— Dr. Leslie Dean Brown

#notable-quote #perspective #shortsightedness #experience

You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet.. ↗

— Libba Bray

#people #faith

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#people #religion #self-consciousness #faith