In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. --Eleanor Roosevelt
"Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech
you'll ever regret." -Laurence J. Peter
You laugh at me because I am different. I laugh at you because
you're all the same. - Vicki Imbornoni
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it
means that you are strong enough to let go--Anon.
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct
group by its least worthy members. --Eric Hoffer, American philosopher
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers
are lonely. --Erma Bombeck
"Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody
at any time." -- Maya Angelou
"Some of us are timid. We think we have something
to lose so we don't try for that next hill." -- Maya Angelou
"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."--Robert
Anthony
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
--Plato
In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they
came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and
I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up. --Martin
Niemoeller
“For those who understand, no explanation is necessary.
For those who will not, or cannot understand, no explanation will do.” -- Unknown
"Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful
appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekinese?" --Edith Sitwell
“I am never less lonely
than when I am by myself.” - Unattributed
"No man is too big to be kind...but many men are too little.
" -Matt Maguire
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open
one. --Malcolm S. Forbes
“Never bow to authority, but always tip your hat.”
- Jim Fiebig
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” - Winston Churchill
"Grant me the courage not to give up, even though I think
it's hopeless."--Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to,
when all they need is one reason why they can. - Willis Whitney
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
“We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions
to define us.” - Virginia Satir
“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes
farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” - Dale Carnegie
“The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet.
What you perceive in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract
with your thoughts; think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm
and you will attract positive results. - Michael LeBeuf
“The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the
path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.” - Thomas Carlyle
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often
look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” - Alexander
Graham Bell
“If you wait for inspiration, you’ll be standing
on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.” - Ben Nicholas
“What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.”
- Judy Grahn
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If
we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. --General Omar
Bradley
"One man with courage makes a majority."--Andrew Jackson
We can never reach our destination if we walk only in the
sunshine. --from the movie "Heaven and Earth"
When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because
I don’t deal drugs.When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I’m innocent. When they took
the second amendment, I said nothing because I don’t own a gun. Now they’ve come for the first amendment, and
I can’t say anything at all. - Tim Freeman
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in
peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. - Croesus of Lydia
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries,
the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would
seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served
to corrupt and brutalize mankind. - Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"
America today faces a choice of destinies. We
can choose to be a peacemaker of the world, or its policeman who goes about night-sticking troublemakers until we, too, find
ourselves in some bloody brawl we cannot handle. --Patrick Buchanan, Political Commentator (I cannot believe Patrick Buchanan
actually makes sense.)
"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed
the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"
--Logan Pearsall Smith
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson
about how he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent
one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, 'which wolf will win the fight in your heart?'
The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.' --Unknown
"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of
income." --Logan Pearsall Smith
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is
impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. 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.
“I guess maybe I’m just a long way from a religious
point of view, but my question isn’t which one is right, but how anyone can possibly believe any of them?” - Crispin
Sartwell
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust
my sails to always reach my destination. - Jimmy Dean
I am one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but
still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do. --Edward E. Hale
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by
worrying over the future. -- Unknown Author
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified,
is not a crime.~ Ernest Hemingway
If any question why we died,
Tell them because our fathers
lied.
~ Rudyard Kipling "Epitaphs of War"
For he who fights and runs away
May live to
fight another day;
But he who is in battle slain
Can never rise and fight again.
~ Oliver Goldsmith "The Art
of Poetry on a New Plan"
War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~
Bertrand Russell
"Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what
we are." -- John Dykes (1832-76), English clergyman and religious composer
Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some
poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.
But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice,
the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being
attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any
country. --Hermann Goering
"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"- Phyllis Diller
"It's easy to
identify people who can't count to ten. They are in front of you in the express lane at the supermarket." - June Henderson
"I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make
a difference." -- Helice Bridges
"If you won't carry the ball, you can't lead the team." --
John Maxwell
“We can't improve if we don't keep an accurate score."-
Don A. Sanders
"The toughest part of change is not starting, but finishing."
-- Don A. Sanders
'Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.' -- Harvey Mackay
You don't drown if you fall into the water. You drown if
you stay there." - Zig Ziglar
"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning
and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible." - George Burns
“We should save prison space for people we’re
afraid of, not people we’re mad at.” - Unknown
"I learn by going where I have to go."--Theodore Roethke
"The saying that knowledge is power is not quite true. USED
knowledge is power." --Edward E. Free
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."
-Barbara DeAngelis
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing
can be changed until it is faced."--James Baldwin
"Others have done it before me. I can, too."--John Faunce
"Silent and listen are spelled with the same letters!" --
--Unknown --
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from
the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers." -Kahlil Gibran
"America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole."
-Bobcat Goldthwaite
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death
is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? --Epicurus
"Hate is baggage, life's too short to be pissed off all the
time, its just not worth it." -Edward Furlong as Danny Vinyard, "American History X"
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the CIA back
in '47, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo - Harry Truman
If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Puerto Rican name?
---Various
"I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It
keeps changing all the time." -Greer Garson
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean
to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.
It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact
extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. --Theodore Roosevelt
I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.--Anon.
"I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore
there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now... as I shall not pass
this way again." - William Penn
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.--Eugene
Ionesco, dramatist
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it
is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.--Sydney J, Harris
Truth is not determined by majority vote. --Doug Gwyn
You will forgive people more easily when you end your need
to make them wrong.--Brian Koslow
It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what
I would do if things were different. They are not different.--Frank Crane
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone
can start from now and make a brand new ending.--Anon.
Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.--Anthony
J. D'Angelo
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in
blind conservatism. --Henry George, Economist
The task of leadership, the first task of concerned people,
is not to condemn or castigate, or deplore: it is to search out the reason for disillusionment and alienation, the rationale
of protest and dissent. --Robert F. Kennedy
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.--W.C.
Fields
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from
the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers." -Kahlil Gibran
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing
can be changed until it is faced.--James Baldwin
"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege."
-Unknown
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide
your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that you control
your own destiny. -- Albert Ellis
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe
more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. -- --Swedish Proverb
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the
same river and he's not the same man. --Heraclitus
It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from
its government. -- Thomas Paine
