"Express yourself, don't repress yourself." - Madonna
"... But consort with them in kindness, for if ye hate them it may happen that ye hate a thing wherein God hath placed much good." Quran [an-Nisa' 4:19]
"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain." - Toni Morrison
"Forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair." - Kahlil Gibran
"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace." - Carlos Santana
"Only a life lived for others is a life worth living." - Albert Einstein
"It is possible that all things are beautiful." - Joseph Russell Taylor
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream." - Malcolm Muggeridge
"The thing, of course, is to make yourself alive." - Sherwood Anderson
"The young do not know enough to be prudent; and, therefore, they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation." - Pearl S. Buck
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy
"The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Never tell a young person something cannot be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossibility to do that thing." - J. A. Holmes
"I was the kid in left field over whose head the ball sailed while I studied a colored rock in the grass." - Jim Borgman
Ratio of Americans who die from tobacco-related illnesses each year to number who are murdered: 17:1 - Harper's Index 1998
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground. - unknown
Be Yourself
Ever since I was a little kid, I didn't want to be me. I wanted to be like Billy Widdledon, and Bill Widdledon didn't even like me. I walked like he walked; I talked like he talked; and I signed up for the high school he signed up for.
Then Billy Widdledon began to hang around Herby Vandeman; he walked like Herby Vandeman; he talked like Herby Vandeman. He mixed me up! I began to walk and talk like Billy Widdledon walking and talking like Herby Vandeman. And then it dawned on me that Herby Vandeman walked and talked like Joey Haverlin. And Joey Haverlin walked and talked like Corky Sabinson.
So here I am walking and talking like Billy Widdledon's imitation of Herby Vandeman's version of Joey Haverlin trying to walk and talk like Corky Sabinson. And who do you think Corky Sabinson is always walking and talking like? Of all people, Dopey Wellington - that little pest who walks and talks like me!
- author unknown
Don't Quit
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor's cup.
And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.
- Author unknown
I did not die
Don't stand beside my grave and weep,
For I'm not there, I do not sleep,
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond's glint on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
When you awaken in morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush,
of quiet birds in circle flight,
I am soft stars that shine at night,
Don't stand beside my grave and cry,
I am not there. I did not die.
- Author unknown
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