Dan

“When they sang, we heard them. We sang with them, and welcomed this new life into a world that is cruel, but that has love in it, too, if you know where to look. This is how we are remembered. In snatches of song, in dreams, in the smile that passes between mother and child. These are the parts of us that cannot be destroyed. These are the parts of us that feed the roots, and keep them strong. The soil is fertile. Our tree grows on.”
― Eleanor Shearer, River Sing Me Home

“Prosperity is not hard-wired into human beings; it must be orchestrated and sustained by political leadership.”
― Zachary D. Carter, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and he bends you with his might that his arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice, and individual liberty,”
― Zachary D. Carter, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes