Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence quotes

“A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.”
-- Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence

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“It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.”
-- Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence

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“There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one is the force of an independently thinking, free, and articulate democracy. The other is the force of an instructed and enlightened public opinion.”
-- Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence

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“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

“The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.”

“suffering is the essence of success!!!”

“The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

“There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”

“If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...”

Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

“Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.”

“The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.”

“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”

“Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.”