Alice Walker Quotes, Country Quotes, Mean Quotes

Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."

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You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

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It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

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Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

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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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The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

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What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

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To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

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You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

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Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

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