-Barbara Deming
 

"Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide."

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

Dale Carnegie

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
- T. S. Eliot

-Herodotus
 

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

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"The owners of this country know the truth: It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." George Carlin

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner

Black IS beautiful!!!!

“when you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.”
Eckhart Tolle, “A New Earth”

We're born alone, we die alone, and while we're here, we're absolutely completely sealed in our own bodies. Really weird. It kinda freaks me out to think about it. We can only experience the outside world through our own slanted perception of it.
-Kenny to George in "A Single Man"-

"One day I will find the right words and they will be simple." Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums

"One man praticing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls." Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums

Dog Philosophy

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. --Anonymous

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. --Ann Landers

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. --Will Rogers

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. --Ben Williams

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. --Josh Billings

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. --Andy Rooney

We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made. --M. Acklam

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. --Sigmund Freud

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. --Rita Rudner

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. --Robert Benchley

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. --Franklin P. Jones

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. --James Thurber

If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise. --Unknown

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money. --Joe Weinstein

Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! --Anne Tyler

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. --Robert A. Heinlein

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. --Mark Twain

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!' -- Dave Barry

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. --Roger Caras

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them. --Phil Pastoret

It is not enough to conquer; one must know how to seduce.