Author Archives: Jacqueline Ashby

Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.

It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.

~ Emily Dickinson

“Focus, focus, focus!”
For a few moments…until…

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Practice the pause.
Pause before judging. Pause before assuming.
Pause before accusing.
Pause whenever you’re about to react harshly
and you’ll avoid doing and saying things you’ll later regret.

~ Lori Deschene

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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
~ Winston Churchill

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces. ~ Henry Adams

via the Virgin Forest: Meditations on History, Ecology, and Culture author Eric Zencey.