Crisis Quotes
Even if you do not want to, One day you will look back through your life...the Question is, what are you going to see? How will your rate and direction of progress make you feel?
I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.
There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.
Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.
For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.
Travelling, he'd always thought, was where he'd meet his other self. Somewhere in a foreign place, he would bump into the bit of himself which was lost.
The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen.
It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.
There’s no point pretending to be someone or something we’re not.
We should be authentic: the ‘real deal’. Neither a clone nor mimic be.
Self-questioning – an effort to get in touch with our essential self – is an endless stream of thought.
Time alone helps us to remember who we are.
It reminded him of the truth—who he really was, and the fact that no matter how far he ran, his past would be right there with him.
Confidence is not about being self-centered. It's about being emotionally centered, so you can better see other people.
Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.
No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.
A person at peace can immediately recognize a consciousness in crisis, whereas those in crisis cannot fully understand themselves or others.
... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...
I strongly believe in all crisis is just an opportunity to make miracles
Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.
When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated.
I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis.
Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act.""To be myself, I have to put on an act, " Ginny said bitterly."What's that mean?""It means I don't know who I am.
Throwing your heart into something is great, but when any one thing becomes all that you stand for, you're vulnerable to an identity crisis when you pivot to a Plan B.
Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I’m touching, so I’d better start paying attention to what I’m touching.
Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket.
We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away.
No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of ide
The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.
Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.
Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.
It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.
In the biological sense, race does not exist.
I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late
If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.
No matter what, its always an opportunity.
Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.
The absence of conditions for self-realization in a country, region and community leads to stagnation, social and economic crisis
Home is where you feel more welcome, more secure, have more rights, where you are loved. This place can be any place even away from what you would normally call home.
During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon.
I no longer consider, is this chap a congenial companion? Rather, the question is, would I feel easy if he were in command of the platoon on my right?
