I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
ALICE WALKEROne thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.
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I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
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Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.
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My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
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I’m one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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You’re not here just to be a clone. You’re not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don’t have to apply. You don’t even have to go there to be absolutely yourself – real, here, now, on this planet.
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I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It’s based, though, on my own life; I’ve come too far to be a pessimist.
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.
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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
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Progress’ affects few. Only revolution can affect many.
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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
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