Age Quotes - Page 11

I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.

The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age. By the time I turn that old, I ain't gonna be doing what he's doing.

The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all.

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself, and let history record that as we toiled laboriously and courageously, we worked to live gloriously.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that’s insufficient in your life.

Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.