Ashita Ga Mienakute Mo
Notable Quotes
[Quote] Change the system
Dec 10th
Ela, a good LJ and Gaia Online friend, wrote this beautiful piece:
I wont hide who I am, I wont tone it down and I wont compromise. I’m not the one that needs changing.
The solution to me wearing my pentacle at school as a teacher is not to not wear it or hide it under my shirt; the solution is to make it so that the pentacle is an acceptable symbol in the larger society.
The solution to my feminism, passion for the environment and other social issues is not to tone it down or shut it up, but to make it so that the problems I feel so strongly about are GONE. I am not the problem.
I’m going to change the system. Are you?
Living life
Oct 30th
Joanna, who writes about Confident Writing, had this beautiful quote that just hit me over the head with its sheer delight. To live, is to give myself the permission to become the powerful, talented person I am (bolded mine):
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Something to think about, isn’t it?
Thought of the Day/Night
Oct 14th
How you do anything is how you do everything.
- Sheri Huber, June Shiver, authors of a workbook of the same name
Time to step up the game and put this into action.
[Meme] Life Quotes
Jul 21st
From Zhilbar on LJ:
Go here and reload until you get five quotes that sum up your philosophy or outlook, then post them.
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
Anatole France (1844 – 1924)
When I’m not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It’s a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.
Maria Irene Fornes
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It’s your move.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.
George Jackson (1941 – 1971)
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Bette Midler (1945 – )
Edit: Just one more because it’s so appropriate:
I always wanted a happy ending… Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
Gilda Radner (1946 – 1989)
Some are wimps
Jan 9th
One of my favourite sayings in the office:
If you wanna take the easy way out, you’re a wimp. 
So apt
Aug 15th
Stolen shamelessly from Marina Mahathir’s blog:
We are all 98% the same and only 2% different but we find millions of words to describe the differences and very little words to describe what we share.
Prof Mohamad Yunus
Wordsmith with a penchant for writing wonderfully whimsical words.
