Scilla Quotes

#1. If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#2. Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#3. This question: 'How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?' has been with me ever since I was a child. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#4. The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower. #Quote by Alice Morse Earle

#5. Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#6. Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#7. Your 'hara' is here, where your uterus is if you're a woman, where the tummy sticks out if you're a man, the centre of gravity of the human body. It is the synthesis of our intellect, body and spirit, and by developing our consciousness of it, we can become incredibly rooted. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#8. To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#9. More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have this understanding communicate it to policy-makers and more particularly, start implementing it in their own lives and localities, change will start to happen. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#10. Change happens at the level of the individual #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#11. Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#12. Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#13. There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#14. I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.' #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#15. Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#16. When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are overwhelmed by a feeling of "Help! What on earth can I, just one person, do about this?" Take heart. That's a sane response. It's the basis for a whole new attitude to world problems, where change at the level of the individual is more and more recognised as essential to change in huge world systems. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#17. We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy

#18. I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it. #Quote by Scilla Elworthy