Lenora Catrini

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“The nature of friendship is such that you never know who will turn out to be your friends, but once you have met them you can’t imagine that you could have gone through life without ever knowing them.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

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“The softest chapter may hold the hardest truth: that without love - visible in systems, in culture, in daily life - nothing holds.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

tags: community-care, earth, earth-care, environmental, environmental-care, hopeful-nonfiction, love-and-justice, purpose, social-change, systems-thinking

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“Everything depends on upbringing. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: parenting, upbringing

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“He turned and saw Becky, crying in the doorway of her house. What was he doing here? Turning back he saw flashing blue lights at the end of the road, and realised the ringing in his ears was the sound of approaching sirens.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

tags: impending-doom, reality-check, realization

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“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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