A Quote by Margaret J. Wheatley

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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Margaret J. Wheatley
American - Writer

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Eckhart Tolle

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

Oliver Stone

I have struggled to be taken seriously as a female athlete. I have struggled to find my worth outside of winning. I have struggled to accept parts of myself. Now I'm recognizing the beauty in those parts as well as beauty in the times when things didn't go my way.

Lynsey Dyer

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Chuck Jones

There are so many great players walking the planet but it is rare to find musicians that can live life together in a way that isn't ego centric. For whatever reason, musicians are just bizarrely composed humans. I think I'm living in the middle of a miracle.

Crowder

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

Natalie Portman

Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have recognizably the same genes. You could carry on right on down to humans and bacteria, and you will find continuous compelling evidence for the hierarchical tree of cousinship.

Richard Dawkins

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Bruce Springsteen

The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. ...Families have supported oppression by separating people into small, isolated units, unable to join together to fight for common interests.

Linda Gordon

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

Viggo Mortensen

Fight less, cuddle more. Demand less, serve more. Text less, talk more. Criticize less, compliment more. Stress less, laugh more. worry less, pray more. With each new day, find new ways to love each other even more.

Dave Willis

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Douglas William Jerrold

I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.

Marina Keegan

Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.

Frances Moore Lappé

Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph over the simple joys. Stand back and watch, because you're going to be here when we fall.