“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.”
―
Helen Keller
“I believe this movement will prevail.I don’t mean it will defeat, conquer, or create harm to someone else.Quite the opposite. I don’t tender the claim in an oracular sense.I mean that the thinking that informs the movement’s goals will reign. It will soon suffuse most institutions, but before then, it will change a sufficient number of people so as to begin the reversal of centuries of frenzied self-destructive behavior. Some say it is too late, but people never change when they are comfortable. Helen Keller threw aside the gnawing fears of chronic bad news when she declared, “I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!” In such a time, history is suspended and thus unfinished. It will be the stroke of midnight for the rest of our lives.My hopefulness about the resilience of human nature is matched by the gravity of our environmental and social condition. If we squander all our attention on what is wrong, we will miss the prize: In the chaos engulfing the world, a hopeful future resides because the past is disintegrating before us. If that is difficult to believe, take a winter off and calculate what it requires to create a single springtime. It’s not too late for the world’s largest institutions and corporations to join in saving the planet, but cooperation must be on the planet’s terms. The “Help Wanted” signs are everywhere. All people and institutions including commerce, governments, schools, churches and cities, need to learn from life and reimagine the world from the bottom up, based on the first principles if justice and ecology. Ecological restoration is extraordinarily simple: You remove whatever prevents the system from healing itself. Social restoration is no different. We have the heart, knowledge, money and sense to optimize out social and ecological fabric.It is time for all that is harmful to leave. One million escorts are here to transform the nightmares of empire and the disgrace of war on people and place. We are the transgressors and we are the forgivers. “We” means all of us, everyone. There can be no green movement unless there is also a black, brown and copper movement. What is more harmful resides within is, the accumulated wounds of the past, the sorrow, shame, deceit, and ignominy shared by every culture, passed down to every person, as surely as DNA, as history of violence and greed. There is not question that the environmental movement is most critical to our survival. Our house is literally burning, and it is only logical that environmentalists expect the social justice movement to get on the environmental bus. But is actually the other way around; the only way we are going to put out this fire is to get on the social justice bus and heal our wounds, because in the end, there is only one bus.Armed with that growing realization, we can address all that is harmful externally.What will guide us is a living intelligence that creates miracles every second, carried forth by a movement with no name.” ― Paul Hawken
“They walked, some of them for miles, from rural villages deep in the bush. They came in wheelbarrows, in wheelchairs. They came with babies on their back. They came the night before, some of them sleeping on the hard ground outside the polling booths so they could vote when morning came. The” ― Helene Cooper, Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
“Helen’s secretary’s phone was ringing off the hook as Clavier and I passed through the antechamber and into the hallway. Once we were outside, I rounded on him.“I’m not going to apologize. What you did to me was unconscionable, and now that Alexa is sick—” The urge to strike out at him welled up in me like a flash fire, and I braced my hand against the wall so as not to give in to the impulse. “I want access to everything. And your full cooperation. I am going to make this right, damn it, whatever it takes.”He stared at me coldly. “Save your self-righteous invectives for someone who will be moved by them.”I took a menacing step forward, despite my determination to remain poised. “Hoping for a repeat performance? You must get off on asphyxiation.” At the spark of anger in his eyes, I laughed. “The first thing that’s going to happen is that I am going to talk to Sebastian. And you are going to call whoever you need to call to make that happen. Right now.”Without waiting for a response, I turned sharply and headed for the stairwell.” ― Nell Stark, nevermore
“She sat there, with her feet in the water, not doing a thing, and all I could think was that this woman had changed my life. She'd changed the very universe I lived in—not by her actions or words, but with the curl of her lips as she smiled and the light in her eyes when she gazed upon mine.” ― Helen Cooper, Four Week Fiancé
“John Myers wrote,"It is Imagination, man's power to imagine, that makes living in society, any society, possible. It think what Paul Goodman says about doing away with 'intolerable biological deprivation and spiritual impoverishment' through what he calls 'creative cooperative production' is the right and humane solution to our social woes.” ― Mary Gabriel, Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
“If you wonder why you have difficulty in communicating with me, I ask you to please listen very carefully to these remarks: 4 If you ask me for guidance, you have signified your willingness to give over your own control, at least to some extent. 2Your frequent failure to ask at all indicates that at such times you are not willing to go even that far. 3Failure to ask for guidance is a sign of fear. 4But when you at least ask, you are acting on a cooperative thought, even though it may not lack ambivalence. 5You are therefore entitled to a specific answer, but unless you follow it without judging it, you will become defensive about the next steps which you will take. 5 You should be confident that any guidance which comes from me will not jeopardize anyone. 2If you can continue not to evaluate my messages and merely follow them, they will lead to good for everyone. 3Since this is the same area of difficulty which may be causing you trouble with meditation, practice in this is essential. 6 I do not yet know what decisions those who are involved in what is happening today will make,101 but I assure you with a confidence I urge you to share that whatever they may be can be utilized for good if you will let them be. 2Why not unburden yourself of the kind of” ― Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles: Based on the Original Handwritten Notes of Helen Schucman—Complete & Annotated Edition
“I am a professional businessman running a multi-billion dollar corporation. I do not have time for little girl games or dalliances. Do you understand me?” ― Helen Cooper, The Billionaire's Baby
“looked” ― Helen Cooper, Alpha Billionaire
“I wonder what he’s doing today. If he has thought about me at all. I’ve thought about him so much that the law of averages would dictate that he has to have thought about me at least once. Maybe if I think about him one hundred times in the next two days that will make him think of me at least once. I had a dream about him last night. We were in the ocean and his eyes blended with the water and I asked him if he were a mermaid. And then he laughed and I laughed and I was so happy because we were together. I’m going to go look at the stars tomorrow. I’m hoping I see a shooting star and then I can make a wish on it. I’ll wish for him to love me as I love him. Perhaps we’ll wish on the same star together.” ― Helen Cooper, The Billionaire's Baby
“make” ― Helen Cooper, Four Week Fiancé
“The House at Sugar Beach, New York Times reporter Helene Cooper’s memoir of her girlhood as a member of the Liberian upper crust.” ― Lawrence Block, Generally Speaking
“Hold on," I said as I pulled her up. "I need to go and get something. Wait for me here or” ― Helen Cooper, Four Week Fiancé
“Um 15:45 Uhr durften sie endlich aus dem Klassenzimmer. Die Pausenhalle war nicht wiederzuerkennen. Überall leuchteten Scheinwerfer. Auf den Tribünen saßen dicht gedrängt die Zuschauer. In der Mitte der Pausenhalle lag ein roter, runder Teppich. Und vom obersten Stock wand sich spiralförmig eine Rutsche nach unten und endete in einem Wasserbecken. Rick wäre am liebsten sofort mit Silas hineingehüpft. Auch Cooper juckte es in den Pfoten, aber er blieb natürlich bei Franka, die immer noch am gelassensten von ihnen allen war. Juri watschelte stolz neben Jo. Wie die anderen Kandidaten trug auch Jo das rote T-Shirt von Kids-Quiz-TV und es stand ihm hervorragend. Miss Cornfield und die Klasse nahmen ihre Plätze auf der Tribüne ein und die fünf Kandidaten bahnten sich den Weg zum Hausmeisterkiosk, der ihnen als Umkleide diente. Max suchte die Reihen nach seinen Eltern ab. Wo steckten die beiden nur? Sie hatten fest versprochen rechtzeitig da zu sein … Helene winkte ihrer Mutter im Publikum zu. „Denkst du an das Autogramm von Karsten Markoni?“, rief Frau May quer durch die Pausenhalle. „Bussi!“ Frau May war die einzige Person, die im Gebäude eine Sonnenbrille trug. Außer Karsten Markoni natürlich – und Tingo, weil” ― Margit Auer, Top oder Flop!
“want to say hello to your soon-to-be new stepmother?" He pulled out of her and she jumped” ― Helen Cooper, Four Week Fiancé
“Humans are capable of great empathy and of horrifying callousness and violence. We have evolved this way because it has been in our interest to both cooperate within our own groups and compete with others. Our empathy is therefore largely limited to those whom we see as members of our own tribe and our callous disregard and violence is reserved for those seen as competitors or traitors. By seeking to expand our circle of empathy ever wider, liberal humanism has achieved unprecedented human equality. It did so by exploiting the better part of our nature—our empathy and sense of fairness.35 By seeking to divide humans into marginalized identity groups and their oppressors, Social Justice risks fuelling our worst tendencies—our tribalism and vengefulness. This cannot work out well for women, or for minority groups, or for society as a whole.” ― Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“I'm going to take you to new heights." I smiled at my apt choice of words. "I'm going to possess your body and soul and I'm going to make you come so hard that you'll wonder how you can ever survive without me inside of you." "TJ." She blushed. "You'll be screaming my name a lot louder than that." I smirked at her. "You'll be screaming” ― Helen Cooper, Four Week Fiancé
“I'm going to take you to new heights." I smiled at my apt choice of words. "I'm going to possess your body and soul and I'm going to make you come so hard that you'll wonder how you can ever survive without me inside of you." "TJ." She blushed. "You'll be screaming my name a lot louder” ― Helen Cooper, Four Week Fiancé
“Then there is the speculative work of anthropologists like Helen Fisher, who claim to tell us about the origins of love or of infidelity or cooperation by reference to other societies, animal behavior, and the fossil record. How can she be wrong? These are untestable, unprovable stories.” ― Michael Crichton, State of Fear
“I believe this movement will prevail.I don’t mean it will defeat, conquer, or create harm to someone else.Quite the opposite. I don’t tender the claim in an oracular sense.I mean that the thinking that informs the movement’s goals will reign. It will soon suffuse most institutions, but before then, it will change a sufficient number of people so as to begin the reversal of centuries of frenzied self-destructive behavior. Some say it is too late, but people never change when they are comfortable. Helen Keller threw aside the gnawing fears of chronic bad news when she declared, “I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!” In such a time, history is suspended and thus unfinished. It will be the stroke of midnight for the rest of our lives.My hopefulness about the resilience of human nature is matched by the gravity of our environmental and social condition. If we squander all our attention on what is wrong, we will miss the prize: In the chaos engulfing the world, a hopeful future resides because the past is disintegrating before us. If that is difficult to believe, take a winter off and calculate what it requires to create a single springtime. It’s not too late for the world’s largest institutions and corporations to join in saving the planet, but cooperation must be on the planet’s terms. The “Help Wanted” signs are everywhere. All people and institutions including commerce, governments, schools, churches and cities, need to learn from life and reimagine the world from the bottom up, based on the first principles if justice and ecology. Ecological restoration is extraordinarily simple: You remove whatever prevents the system from healing itself. Social restoration is no different. We have the heart, knowledge, money and sense to optimize out social and ecological fabric.It is time for all that is harmful to leave. One million escorts are here to transform the nightmares of empire and the disgrace of war on people and place. We are the transgressors and we are the forgivers. “We” means all of us, everyone. There can be no green movement unless there is also a black, brown and copper movement. What is more harmful resides within is, the accumulated wounds of the past, the sorrow, shame, deceit, and ignominy shared by every culture, passed down to every person, as surely as DNA, as history of violence and greed. There is not question that the environmental movement is most critical to our survival. Our house is literally burning, and it is only logical that environmentalists expect the social justice movement to get on the environmental bus. But is actually the other way around; the only way we are going to put out this fire is to get on the social justice bus and heal our wounds, because in the end, there is only one bus.Armed with that growing realization, we can address all that is harmful externally.What will guide us is a living intelligence that creates miracles every second, carried forth by a movement with no name.” ― Paul Hawken
“They walked, some of them for miles, from rural villages deep in the bush. They came in wheelbarrows, in wheelchairs. They came with babies on their back. They came the night before, some of them sleeping on the hard ground outside the polling booths so they could vote when morning came. The” ― Helene Cooper, Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
“Helen’s secretary’s phone was ringing off the hook as Clavier and I passed through the antechamber and into the hallway. Once we were outside, I rounded on him.“I’m not going to apologize. What you did to me was unconscionable, and now that Alexa is sick—” The urge to strike out at him welled up in me like a flash fire, and I braced my hand against the wall so as not to give in to the impulse. “I want access to everything. And your full cooperation. I am going to make this right, damn it, whatever it takes.”He stared at me coldly. “Save your self-righteous invectives for someone who will be moved by them.”I took a menacing step forward, despite my determination to remain poised. “Hoping for a repeat performance? You must get off on asphyxiation.” At the spark of anger in his eyes, I laughed. “The first thing that’s going to happen is that I am going to talk to Sebastian. And you are going to call whoever you need to call to make that happen. Right now.”Without waiting for a response, I turned sharply and headed for the stairwell.” ― Nell Stark, nevermore
“She sat there, with her feet in the water, not doing a thing, and all I could think was that this woman had changed my life. She'd changed the very universe I lived in—not by her actions or words, but with the curl of her lips as she smiled and the light in her eyes when she gazed upon mine.” ― Helen Cooper, Four Week Fiancé
“John Myers wrote,"It is Imagination, man's power to imagine, that makes living in society, any society, possible. It think what Paul Goodman says about doing away with 'intolerable biological deprivation and spiritual impoverishment' through what he calls 'creative cooperative production' is the right and humane solution to our social woes.” ― Mary Gabriel, Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
“If you wonder why you have difficulty in communicating with me, I ask you to please listen very carefully to these remarks: 4 If you ask me for guidance, you have signified your willingness to give over your own control, at least to some extent. 2Your frequent failure to ask at all indicates that at such times you are not willing to go even that far. 3Failure to ask for guidance is a sign of fear. 4But when you at least ask, you are acting on a cooperative thought, even though it may not lack ambivalence. 5You are therefore entitled to a specific answer, but unless you follow it without judging it, you will become defensive about the next steps which you will take. 5 You should be confident that any guidance which comes from me will not jeopardize anyone. 2If you can continue not to evaluate my messages and merely follow them, they will lead to good for everyone. 3Since this is the same area of difficulty which may be causing you trouble with meditation, practice in this is essential. 6 I do not yet know what decisions those who are involved in what is happening today will make,101 but I assure you with a confidence I urge you to share that whatever they may be can be utilized for good if you will let them be. 2Why not unburden yourself of the kind of” ― Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles: Based on the Original Handwritten Notes of Helen Schucman—Complete & Annotated Edition
“I am a professional businessman running a multi-billion dollar corporation. I do not have time for little girl games or dalliances. Do you understand me?” ― Helen Cooper, The Billionaire's Baby
“looked” ― Helen Cooper, Alpha Billionaire
“I wonder what he’s doing today. If he has thought about me at all. I’ve thought about him so much that the law of averages would dictate that he has to have thought about me at least once. Maybe if I think about him one hundred times in the next two days that will make him think of me at least once. I had a dream about him last night. We were in the ocean and his eyes blended with the water and I asked him if he were a mermaid. And then he laughed and I laughed and I was so happy because we were together. I’m going to go look at the stars tomorrow. I’m hoping I see a shooting star and then I can make a wish on it. I’ll wish for him to love me as I love him. Perhaps we’ll wish on the same star together.” ― Helen Cooper, The Billionaire's Baby
“make” ― Helen Cooper, Four Week Fiancé
“The House at Sugar Beach, New York Times reporter Helene Cooper’s memoir of her girlhood as a member of the Liberian upper crust.” ― Lawrence Block, Generally Speaking
“Hold on," I said as I pulled her up. "I need to go and get something. Wait for me here or” ― Helen Cooper, Four Week Fiancé
“Um 15:45 Uhr durften sie endlich aus dem Klassenzimmer. Die Pausenhalle war nicht wiederzuerkennen. Überall leuchteten Scheinwerfer. Auf den Tribünen saßen dicht gedrängt die Zuschauer. In der Mitte der Pausenhalle lag ein roter, runder Teppich. Und vom obersten Stock wand sich spiralförmig eine Rutsche nach unten und endete in einem Wasserbecken. Rick wäre am liebsten sofort mit Silas hineingehüpft. Auch Cooper juckte es in den Pfoten, aber er blieb natürlich bei Franka, die immer noch am gelassensten von ihnen allen war. Juri watschelte stolz neben Jo. Wie die anderen Kandidaten trug auch Jo das rote T-Shirt von Kids-Quiz-TV und es stand ihm hervorragend. Miss Cornfield und die Klasse nahmen ihre Plätze auf der Tribüne ein und die fünf Kandidaten bahnten sich den Weg zum Hausmeisterkiosk, der ihnen als Umkleide diente. Max suchte die Reihen nach seinen Eltern ab. Wo steckten die beiden nur? Sie hatten fest versprochen rechtzeitig da zu sein … Helene winkte ihrer Mutter im Publikum zu. „Denkst du an das Autogramm von Karsten Markoni?“, rief Frau May quer durch die Pausenhalle. „Bussi!“ Frau May war die einzige Person, die im Gebäude eine Sonnenbrille trug. Außer Karsten Markoni natürlich – und Tingo, weil” ― Margit Auer, Top oder Flop!
“want to say hello to your soon-to-be new stepmother?" He pulled out of her and she jumped” ― Helen Cooper, Four Week Fiancé
“Humans are capable of great empathy and of horrifying callousness and violence. We have evolved this way because it has been in our interest to both cooperate within our own groups and compete with others. Our empathy is therefore largely limited to those whom we see as members of our own tribe and our callous disregard and violence is reserved for those seen as competitors or traitors. By seeking to expand our circle of empathy ever wider, liberal humanism has achieved unprecedented human equality. It did so by exploiting the better part of our nature—our empathy and sense of fairness.35 By seeking to divide humans into marginalized identity groups and their oppressors, Social Justice risks fuelling our worst tendencies—our tribalism and vengefulness. This cannot work out well for women, or for minority groups, or for society as a whole.” ― Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“I'm going to take you to new heights." I smiled at my apt choice of words. "I'm going to possess your body and soul and I'm going to make you come so hard that you'll wonder how you can ever survive without me inside of you." "TJ." She blushed. "You'll be screaming my name a lot louder than that." I smirked at her. "You'll be screaming” ― Helen Cooper, Four Week Fiancé
“I'm going to take you to new heights." I smiled at my apt choice of words. "I'm going to possess your body and soul and I'm going to make you come so hard that you'll wonder how you can ever survive without me inside of you." "TJ." She blushed. "You'll be screaming my name a lot louder” ― Helen Cooper, Four Week Fiancé
“Then there is the speculative work of anthropologists like Helen Fisher, who claim to tell us about the origins of love or of infidelity or cooperation by reference to other societies, animal behavior, and the fossil record. How can she be wrong? These are untestable, unprovable stories.” ― Michael Crichton, State of Fear
