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my step is light my will is strong and my head is right Ri~ |
"Only the egalitarian transformation of the family will unleash the power of this little platoon to promote positive, progressive moral, social and political change,"
-- eileen m. hunt (2002) The Family as Cave, Platoon, and Prison: The Three Stages of Wollenstonecraft's Philosophy of the Family in: The Review of Politics - Winter 2002 Vol. 64, Issue 1 pp. 81-119 |
Summa these is too hard. -tapu
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Beware the fury of a patient man. ~John Dryden,
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From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. ~Samuel Butler
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. ~ Alice Walker |
If you look at what you have in life,
You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough. ~ Oprah Winfrey |
"The most important experiences are those that take you to the very limit. Most people have never dared to look into the depths of their soul, never attempted to unleash the wild beast, or to understand that sex, pain and love are all extreme experiences. Only those who know those frontiers know life." ~ Marquis De Sade
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Dolly Parton, upon meeting country newcomer Clint Black for the first time: "I took one look at that boy and thought, my god, I'm old enough to be his lover."
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"If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life." ~ Rick - Casablanca
"Tell me, who was it you left me for? Was it Laszlo, or were there others in between? Or - aren't you the kind that tells?" ~ Rick - Casablanca |
Understanding is the reward of faith. - St. Augustine
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“Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation." - Unknown |
“Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.” - Stendhal |
"A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable." — Bertrand Russell |
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Virginia Satir |
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
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Every life has a story filled with love, hope, pain, disappointment, dreams, yes even yours, think about it.
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Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? --William Lloyd Garrison |
“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.” - Horace |
“I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?” - Unknown |
“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go” - Mary Oliver |
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." – Oscar Wilde
I love this, even though it would seem to be at odds with being an editor. But the best editors are those who know when to let an author break convention. |
- Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. - - Buddha - |
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all" Emily Dickinson |
"This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect." - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
"I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise." - John Keats |
"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared." - Charles de Montesquieu |
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
~Mignon McLaughlin |
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~Ferdinand Foch |
Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing. --Michael Iapoce |
"It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity." ~ Francis Bacon, Sr.
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"All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here."
David Pelzer from his bestseller "A Man Named Dave" |
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out. -Otto von Bismarck, statesman (1815-1898)
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
~Henry Ellis |
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. –-Paulo Freire |
"Procrastination is like a credit card, it is a lot of fun until you get the bill"
Christopher Parker |
"Existe un lenguaje que vamás allá de las palabras." ~ Paulo Coelho
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou |
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