Quotes by Activists - Page 50

Once you reach the summit of your own heart you will see beauty is everywhere.
Bryant McGill
Limitless material growth is not sustainable or moral.
Bryant McGill
Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.
Bryant McGill
Real love sometimes means saying goodbye.
Bryant McGill
One of the fastest ways you can profoundly change your life is to rid yourself of toxic people.
Bryant McGill
The way to send a clear message that you are ready for better people in your life is the kick the rascals to the curb.
Bryant McGill
Don't allow others to make you feel small. You came to this world to grow and to explore and touch the miracles and marvels of life.
Bryant McGill
Taking personal responsibility is not about being "responsible" — it is about seeing your truth and evolving.
Bryant McGill
If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.
Bryant McGill
Be selfish and take good care of you first. When you are your best, you can best help others.
Bryant McGill
Rust may never sleep, but then, neither does moss.
Brian Awehali
Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.
Bryant McGill
When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.
Bryant McGill
But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place.
James Baldwin
No one's life made sense on paper. You cannot condense a person into facts.
Rivera Sun
Toxic relationships are dangerous to your health; they will literally kill you. Stress shortens your lifespan. Even a broken heart can kill you. There is an undeniable mind-body connection. Your arguments and hateful talk can land you in the emergency room or in the morgue. You were not meant to live in a fever of anxiety; screaming yourself hoarse in a frenzy of dreadful, panicked fight-or-flight that leaves you exhausted and numb with grief. You were not meant to live like animals tearing one another to shreds. Don't turn your hair gray. Don't carve a roadmap of pain into the sweet wrinkles on your face. Don't lay in the quiet with your heart pounding like a trapped, frightened creature. For your own precious and beautiful life, and for those around you — seek help or get out before it is too late. This is your wake-up call!
Bryant McGill
If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.
Bryant McGill
A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.
Mary Johnson
This bed yawnsbeneath the weightof our absent selves.
Maya Angelou
When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.
Masha Gessen
Loneliness and desperation are only possible when we have lost touch with our beauty within.
Bryant McGill
Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness?
Bryant McGill
Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate.
Bryant McGill
Loneliness will give you the greatest chance of ever having a beautiful relationship with another person.
Bryant McGill
Loneliness is really a wonderful companion that can show us so much about ourselves and others.
Bryant McGill
Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.
Sam Killermann
Alone"Lying, thinkingLast nightHow to find my soul a homeWhere water is not thirstyAnd bread loaf is not stoneI came up with one thingAnd I don’t believe I’m wrongThat nobody,But nobodyCan make it out here alone.Alone, all aloneNobody, but nobodyCan make it out here alone.There are some millionairesWith money they can’t useTheir wives run round like bansheesTheir children sing the bluesThey’ve got expensive doctorsTo cure their hearts of stone.But nobodyNo, nobodyCan make it out here alone.Alone, all aloneNobody, but nobodyCan make it out here alone.Now if you listen closelyI’ll tell you what I knowStorm clouds are gatheringThe wind is gonna blowThe race of man is sufferingAnd I can hear the moan,‘Cause nobody,But nobodyCan make it out here alone.Alone, all aloneNobody, but nobodyCan make it out here alone.
Maya Angelou
I don't know. I got nothing. No house, no people, no place. Maybe that's troubles. Don't I say?
Alex La Guma
You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky.
James Baldwin
we used to talk all nightand do things alone togetherand i’ve begun(as a reaction to a feeling)to balancethe pleasure of lonelinessagainst the painof loving you
Nikki Giovanni
And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.
James Baldwin
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
Muhammad Ali
John Locke, called the Father of Liberalism, made the argument that the individual instead of the community was the foundation of society. He believed that government existed by the consent of the governed, not by divine right. But the reason government is necessary is to defend private property, to keep people from stealing from each other. This idea appealed to the wealthy for an obvious reason: they wanted to keep their wealth. From the perspective of the poor, things look decidedly different. The rich are able to accumulate wealth by taking the labor of the poor and by turning the commons into privately owned commodities; therefore, defending the accumulation of wealth in a system that has no other moral constraints is in effect defending theft, not protecting against it.
Lierre Keith
America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth.
Bryant McGill
We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.
Bryant McGill
Health is a priceless wealth. Invest while you can.
Bryant McGill
Treat others with respect and you will always be wealthy, because your community is your real currency.
Bryant McGill
The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the violence committed for wealth is socially invisible or committed at enough of a distance that its beneficiaries don't have to be aware of it. This type of violence has defined every imperialist war in the history of the US that has been fought to get access to "natural resources" for corporations to turn into the cheap consumer goods that form the basis of the American way of life.
Lierre Keith
If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.
Nelson Mandela
The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!
Alice Walker
Nonviolence is supremely the weapon of the dispossessed, the underprivileged, and the egalitarian, not those who are still addicted to private profit, commercial values, and great wealth.
David T. Dellinger
On Money - There are many ways to get rich quickly. All of them are risky. Some of them are dangerous. A few of them are downright fatal.
Marsha Hinds
With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we're seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons. One of the things I find very interesting in our current debates is this concept of who creates wealth. That wealth is only created when it's owned privately. What would you call clean water, fresh air, a safe environment? Are they not a form of wealth? And why does it only become wealth when some entity puts a fence around it and declares it private property? Well, you know, that's not wealth creation. That's wealth usurpation.
Elaine Bernard
...the oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)
Mev Puleo
Certainly, the wealth of the rich is a consequence of the poverty of the poor. (Lori Altmann, p. 85)
Mev Puleo
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
Mahatma Gandhi
The more one has engaged in a particular pattern of thought, the more difficult it becomes to override these habitual patterns.
Bryant McGill
The beautiful world is just one thought away. It's already there just waiting for us to realize and to accept it.
Bryant McGill
Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways.
Bryant McGill
Life is simply a collective thought. Didn't you know we made it all up? Don't you know it can be different?
Bryant McGill
Every good thing begins with one positive thought.
Bryant McGill
In a sea of trouble your thoughts are your lifeboat.
Bryant McGill
Pray for your own deliverance from your own vicious thoughts.
Bryant McGill
There is no such thing as perfection and it is okay for you to have negative thoughts.
Bryant McGill
One positive thought is something you can accomplish.
Bryant McGill
One positive thought will shift the entire world under your feet.
Bryant McGill
To alter the universe, alter your thoughts, because the only universe you will ever know is in your mind.
Bryant McGill
Your every ill-thought, secreted hate, cynical and vicious judgment you carry is meant only for you.
Bryant McGill
Each positive thought is your refuge and your sanctuary, where in that thoughtful moment, you are safe.
Bryant McGill
Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.
Bryant McGill