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“An existential revolution should provide hope of a moral reconstitution of society, which means a radical renewal of the relationship of human beings to what I have called the human order, which no political order can replace. A new experience of being, a renewed rootedness in the universe, a newly grasped sense of higher responsibility,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 19th July”

“People come and go, Customs, fashions and preferences change. Yet the web of fundamental rights and justice which a nation proclaims must not be broken.” Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013), born on this day

“As you move forward along the path of reason, people will stand in your way. They will never be able to keep you from doing what’s sound, so don’t let them knock out your goodwill for them. Keep a steady watch on both fronts, not only for well-based judgments and actions, but also for gentlenessContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 17th July”

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (1862 – 1931), journalist, civil rights campaigner and suffragette, born on this day

“When you have warfare things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war. When your forefathers threw the tea into Boston harbour, a good many women had to go without their tea. It has always seemed to me an extraordinary thing that you did notContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 15th July”

“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.” Woody Guthrie (1912 –Continue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 14th July”

“One person, on doing well by others, immediately accounts the expected favour in return. Another is not so quick, but still considers the person a debtor and knows the favour. A third kind of person acts as if not conscious of the deed, rather like a vine producing a cluster of grapes without making furtherContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 13th July”

“I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil–to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 12th July”

“Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.” E. B. White (1899Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 11th July”

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903), painter, born on this day