Wednesday, November 19, 2008

humanity

"The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest place. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never forget." -Arundhati Roy

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

um. where did you find this because it's amazing. and actually i think that the first sentence is in one of the sia songs. maybe

Taryn Lamp said...

i found part of it on a friend of mines facebook, and then searched for the whole thing. its pretty incredible.

Anonymous said...

ha. yeah. beautiful

stace-face said...

i really like that quote a lot - awesome :)

K. A. Ruth Bushaw said...

sort of like the poem i posted..