Kali > Kali's Quotes

“I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it incredibly.”
― Achaan Chah

“In all the cities of this year
I have longed for the other city.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

“We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.”
― Vandana Shiva

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“I’m unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. A”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“Sometimes the greed and malice of what he sees appalls him so much he thinks he must’ve misunderstood; he looks again, and it’s worse than he thought.”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

“Young love, thinks Felix wistfully. So good for the complexion.”
― Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

“You couldn’t make sense of illness or pain or the long good-bye, but you would deal with it because you had no choice, which he had come to value as a spiritual condition worth pursuing.”
― Fiona Maazel, A Little More Human

“acceptance of charity from thieves and oppressors is the equivalent of abetting their crimes, and that the duty of alms giving belongs to everyone who possesses a minimum degree of wealth, not just aristocrats.”
― Joshua Hammer, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts