And so it came to pass that we reached the appointed date for the delivery of this month’s (fairly short) collection of quotes.
I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answer. I hold no secret knowledge, as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive – nor will we deserve to.
[Leonard Peltier]
Our world is not divided by race, colour, gender or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, colour, gender or religion.
[Nelson Mandela]
The natural sole purpose of beauty is to admire it.
[John Ruskin]
Having a calm and compassionate mind enables us to use our natural intelligence more effectively.
[Dalai Lama]
It’s absurd that common sense has become so uncommon.
Sleep at night.
Eat real foods (enough to offset your energy needs).
Don’t starve yourself.
Move your body, sometimes hard.
Don’t drink too much.
Don’t smoke or vape.
Connect with other people, in person.
Spend time outdoors.
[Brad Stulberg]
Personally I have never been to a lap dancing club and have no intention of going, but it annoys me intensely that Councils seem to see it as their divine right to stick their noses into such things.
If there are men who are silly enough to want to waste all their money in such places and women who are happy to earn quite substantial money by jiggling their lady bits at a bunch of drunken half-wits, then where is the harm?
I know, objectifies women blah, blah, blah, promotes an unhealthy view of women amongst men blah, blah, blah, but that’s just nonsense.
Our entire society objectifies women, so it’s a bit hard to just pick on these clubs, and these chaps have probably always had an emotionally stunted outlook, and the clubs are unlikely to change that much.
[Rudi Gunn; http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/apr/21/lap-dancing-clubs-human-rights]
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another, of hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of universes that each of them sees.
[Marcel Proust]