“But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo.
Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

Sojourner Truth (~1797-1883)
 

Sojourner Truth was born a slave, and became a popular spokeperson for abolition, women's rights, and temperance. Her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech is known in several variants, because Sojourner Truth herself did not write it down.
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• There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again. -- Equal Rights Convention, New York, 1867

• If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!

• Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

• Religion without humanity is poor human stuff.

my choice is what I choose to do
and if I'm causing no harm
it shouldn't bother you
your choice is who you choose to be
and if your causin' no harm
then you're alright with me

burn one down... Ben Harper

Kindness is a language we all can speak.

Even the deaf can hear it and the blind

can see it. (Mother Teresa)

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. – William Samuel Johnson.

Love all of these...
 

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
-- Emory Austin


Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
-- Chinese Proverbs

What happens to a person is less significant than what happens within him.
-- Louis L. Mann

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, un-forgiveness, selfishness and fears.
-- Glenn Clark

Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
Jack Buck

“You can do anything, but not everything.” -David Allen

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 - November 15, 1978)
 

Margaret Mead was an anthropologist known for her work on the relationship of culture and personality. Mead's early work stressed the cultural basis of gender roles while later she wrote about the biological influence on male and female behaviors, too. She became a prominent lecturer and writer on family and child-rearing issues.

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• In 1976: We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.

• Because of their age-long training in human relations -- for that is what feminine intuition really is -- women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise.

• It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

• If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

• Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

My favorite saying...
 

My favorite saying is, "who cares?!!!!" lol!!

Wishing to be out on the water today....
 

"Maritime" by Nizar Qabbani

In the blue harbor of your eyes
Blow rains of melodious lights,
Dizzy suns and sails
Painting their voyage to endlessness.

In the blue harbor of your eyes
Is an open sea window,
And birds appear in the distance
Searching for islands still unborn.

In the blue harbor of your eyes
Snow falls in July.
Ships laden with turquoise
Spill over the sea and are not drowned.

In the blue harbor of your eyes
I run on the scattered rocks like a child
Breathing the fragrance of the sea
And return an exhausted bird.

In the blue harbor of your eyes
Stones sing in the night.
Who has hidden a thousand poems
In the closed book of your eyes?

If only, if only I were a sailor,
If only somebody'd give me a boat,
I would furl my sails each evening
In the blue harbor of your eyes.

Katniss

"nothing gives human beings pain longer or so persistently plagues the human memory than questions which have never been adequately answered. every parent who has survived a child, every lover who is lost to the one they live and breathe for, every person who realizes that they have egregiously harmed another, every culture whose prophets and wise people seem to have abandoned them to chaos has experienced great pain over the same unanswered question: 'why?'

the lack of an answer to that question, an answer we can understand and except, causes a gnawing ache in the chest and a loss of equilibrium from which we never fully recover. we only learn to go on without the sort of balance we had before and hope that one day we will learn not to notice the emptiness left behind in our hearts. this, my dear friends, is where we must come together and embrace compassion for one another with great urgency. compassion for every muslim. for every sikh. for every pagan. for every buddhist. for every jew. for every christian. for every agnostic. for every athiest. for every law abiding citizen and every criminal. for every teacher and every student. for every leader and every working person; for the poorest among us and the richest. for every woman, man and child. for every straight person and gay person. for every race, ethnicity, religion and philosophy, ability, size, shape and kind of human being we should have compassion because each and every one of these people understands the grief that arises from an unanswered 'why'. the blank, painful space of 'why?' is never filled entirely, never heals fully and it is the one thing all humans know. from this commonality all other common threads can be interwoven. we all know the grief of the unanswered 'why?' and so we know too the strength it takes to go on from that void of understanding. it is with this commonality in mind that we should begin our work toward peace. we must begin by acknowledging the grief we have in common over our own painfully unanswered 'why?' " Desmond Tutu

"It only takes one person to change your life - You"

Explore every thought in depth. Be above the drama of the Situation. Deepak Chopra

"What you think about, you bring about." I read "The Secret", and watched the movie, it's amazing and so true! (have a vision board too!) I recommend it to anyone and everyone!

Margaret Sanger (1884-1966)
 

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, worked first as a nurse where she learned first-hand of the health and social problems of too many pregnancies. Margaret Sanger spent time in jail to fight for sex education, and for distributing contraceptive information and contraceptives. Margaret Sanger lived long enough to see the practice of birth control declared a constitutional right (for married couples) in 1965.
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• No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

• Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

• When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.

• Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." - Noam Chomsky

No one looks back on their life and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep.