Gwen Bristow quotes

“We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world if we practice now what we said we were fighting for.”
-- Gwen Bristow

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“You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.”
-- Gwen Bristow

Source : Gwen Bristow (2014). “Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel”, p.133, Open Road Media

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“Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.”
-- Gwen Bristow

Source : Gwen Bristow (2014). “Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel”, p.53, Open Road Media

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“We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.”
-- Gwen Bristow

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“being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.”
-- Gwen Bristow

Source : Gwen Bristow (2014). “Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel”, p.209, Open Road Media

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“uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to be taken for granted. ... they didn't start making laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution until everybody was about to take it for granted.”
-- Gwen Bristow

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“No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.”
-- Gwen Bristow

Source : GWEN BRISTOW (1971). “GWEN BRISTOW, TOMORROW IS FOREVER”

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“The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly.”
-- Gwen Bristow

Source : Gwen Bristow (2014). “Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel”, p.158, Open Road Media

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“We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.”

“I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.”

“Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!”

“Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.”

“All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.”

“The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.”

“Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.”

“Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.”

Source : "Interim report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred Maurice de Zayas". August 09, 2012.

“Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.”

“What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?”