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Us Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams
- The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can…
- Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.
- But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires.…
- I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the…
- If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every…
- When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.
- Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free.
- To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.
- It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists,…
- And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow…
- I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because…
- It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living…
- Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the…
- The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.
- Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener,…
- Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal…
- Grief dares us to love once more.
- What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.
- To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are…
- The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling…
- For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have…
- When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we…
- A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks…
- When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation…
- Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong