Michael Downey 🇺🇳 @downey@floss.social

"Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance!"

-- Fritz Reiner, conductor
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"I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing."

- Rollo May #quotes

"It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it."

— Hans Selye

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"To drift is to be in hell, to be in heaven is to steer."

- George Bernard Shaw #quotes

"To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination."

- Bell Hooks
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"It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible."

- Thomas Robert Gaines #quotes

"When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change. But they cannot rest on just that change. It has to continue."

- Rosa Parks #quotes

"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm #quotes

"To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation."

- Chinese Proverb

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"A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."

- Mahatma Gandhi #quotes

"If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive."

- Brené Brown
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"It's easier to say what we believe than to be what we believe."
- Robert Anthony
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"Don't lose faith in humanity. Think of all the people in the world who have never played you a single nasty trick."

- Elbert Hubbard
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"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional."

- H. Witte
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"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing."

- Rollo May
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"Understanding is a two-way street."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing."

-- Rollo May #quotes

Really hoping folks leave #XOXOfest inspired to do more of that, working toward less intractable conflict in the world.

"To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing."

- Raymond Williams #quotes

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource

"I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field."
- Clifford Green
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