Fatima Wilson > Fatima's Quotes

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

“Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it”
― Vaclav Havel

“Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility.”
― vaclav havel

“All human suffering concerns each human being”
― Vaclav Havel

“Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.”
― Vaclav Havel

“Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.”
― Václav Havel

“I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks”
― bh

“I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not. ”
― Bell Hooks

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie