Alice Walker Quotes, Prayer Quotes, World Quotes

HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.

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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

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I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself. You become your own guide. The teachings can help you, but really, we're all here with the opportunity the reality of hereness. We all have that. I trust that...I'm just not interested in labels. I find all of them constrictive. They're hard to wear. And they're hard to wear because we're always - hopefully - growing.

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A burnt finger remember the fire.

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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

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I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

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I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

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I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

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I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

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Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

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