To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

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Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

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we are the ones we have been waiting for

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