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Spirit...has 50 times the strength and staying power of brawn and muscle.
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Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.
~Gerard Way |
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.
~Cesar Chavez |
The good die young, but pricks live forever.
~Lewis Black |
Whenever I See A Soldier Boy by Sam Miller in 1942
Whenever I see a soldier boy
No matter where it be I give him salutation For he means so much to me He's not the boy we used to know In store, at desk, or plow He's a defender of our faith He's in the service now He keeps Old Glory flying On land, and air, and sea He lives to make our homes secure He dies to keep us free. |
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe."
- Anatole France |
"Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are." ~ Amy Bloom
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"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Ch. 11 ~> Microcredit: The Financial Revolution (Half the Sky: Kristoff & Wudunn, 2010)
"It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women,"
~ Kofi Annan (then UN-Secretary General, 2006) |
Jealous: Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
~Ambrose Bierce |
Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
~Author Unknown |
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
~Buddy Hackett |
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful - Alice Walker
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow - Alice Walker The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any - Alice Walker Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me - Alice Walker Virgil - Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~I Miss you by Claudia Ghandi Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Euripides Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery |
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
~Maria Robinson |
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
~Basho |
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions”
-Rainer Maria Rilke |
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~Hans Christian Anderson |
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” — Albert Schweitzer
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“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward
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