#pre

It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#freedom #self-expression #change

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability! ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#emotions #future #life #mutability #past

because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#paris

Your true home is in the here and the now. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#presence #zen

White men have screwed this country up! I would like a black, female…. everything all rolled into one.I want something different. I want a real change. People, I want a president who speaks well, who has a sense of humor. This guy is such a moron! It's beyond the point where it's a joke. He's an idiot. ↗

— Denis Leary

#bush #politics #president #change

Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ford-prefect #adam

If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets. ↗

— Robert M. Sapolsky

#environmentalism

Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning. ↗

— David Bornstein

#social-change #social-entrepreneurship #change

Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to abnormal situations. Poverty, unemployment, and the loss of loved ones can make people depressed, and these social and situational causes of depression cannot be changed by drugs. ↗

— Irving Kirsch

#depression #normal #social #change

Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not? ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#looks #pretty #louisa-may-alcott