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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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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
~Jane Austen |
We must be the change we want to see. Mahatma Gandhi |
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
~Erica Jong~ |
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.” - C.S. Lewis |
“Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled with an emotion so deep and tender that no other feeling can compare. Pain from knowing that I'm so in love, that I'm more vulnerable than I've ever” - Author Unknown |
“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Make conscientiousness and sincerity Your grand object. Have no friends not equal to Yourself. If You have done wrong, be not ashamed to make amends.
~Confucius |
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A beautiful woman is like a wild rose.... Lovely and calm... but willing to draw blood in her defense. unknown- |
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much
as your own unguarded thoughts. The Buddha The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances. Atisha Do not speak- unless it improves on silence. Buddhist Saying In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what is sensed, there should be just the sensed; In what is thought, there should be just the thought. He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak in the world. Sutta Nipata II,14 These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind! Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the miser with generosity. Conquer the liar with truth. The Dhammapada Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another. H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue. H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama |
Know Now Then ~ ani
it's not so much that we got closer
it's that her face just got bigger and by the time it was filling up my whole view i figured my face had got bigger too so i used it to try and sway her say something to her make my case but my face never had a chance all along it was the wrong song and dance i just stood there without even a stance helpless to her advance and her retreat backspace, delete it wasn't so much that we fell in love as my life just seemed to come down to a slow walk on a straight line between her smile and her frown and maybe we never were as close as we should have been but i didn't know what i know now then yeah i didn't know what i know now then |
"How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd"...
Alexander Pope |
"Evey day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthing, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
~Sir Winston Churchill "Honor does not have to be defended." ~Robert J. Sawyer |
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where one's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
~Edward P. Morgan |
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
~Charles W. Eliot |
"My webs were no miracle, Wilbur. I was only describing what I saw. The miracle is you." ~ Charlotte :)
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There is pleasure in new friendships, comfort in old ones, and sweet memories in those we’ve lost.
Gardening is an ancient and universal passion that enables you to remain rooted in the present but provides glimpses of the future as wisdom grows, wit blossoms, and ideas bear fruit. |
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~Author Unknown The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead . |
Rush Hour ~ Chrystos
waiting in the bus stop with a seat at least
when across the street a #7 Rainier jerked to a belching screech so my eyes rested on an extraordinarily beautiful Black woman about our age Her sloping cheekbones caught the light in an amazing deep mulberry glow I wanted to run through traffic bang on the door as the bus groaned away to tell her You're the loveliest sight of my whole day Thank you! Staring down at my purple knees I knew with such a hard ache in my sore feet that she'd just think I was plum crazy |
Hope Haiku ~ Chrystos
A young Black man arguing passionately with 3 white ones who are not in favor of women's rights |
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