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Character / Integrity
Freedom / Rights
Love / Romance
CHARACTER / INTEGRITY
Some people think only intellect counts -- knowing how to
solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are
insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. -- Dean Koontz
You will forgive people more easily when you end your need
to make them wrong.--Brian Koslow
Hatred -- The anger of the weak. --Alphonse Daudet
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
The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop
to count them.--Anon
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how
he treats those who can do nothing for him.”--James D. Miles
"Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge
of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them -- who answer for them." -- William J. Bennett,
1913-
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent
superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers
to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty
in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that
he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation. --Vaclav Havel
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people
who knew they were wrong. - Wilson Mizner
"The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your
actions, the more credibility you will have."--Brian Koslow
"Talent is a gift, but character is a choice."-- John
C. Maxwell
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel,
and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. -- Author Leo Rosten
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same
person. - Zig Ziglar
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
"It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that
you don't know all the answers."--John P. Lougbrane
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined
by praise than saved by criticism."--Norman Vincent Peale
"Character isn't inherited."--Helen Gahagan Douglas
"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished
when he quits." - Richard Nixon
"Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it."--Steven V.
Thulon
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem
with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words
what you believe and are acting from. --William Faulkner
"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't
have integrity, nothing else matters." --Alan Simpson
"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth
if you lost all your money." --Anon.
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."--Anon.
"I deserve someone who likes me for who I am pretending to
be." --Arj Barker
FREEDOM - RIGHTS
"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks
in the way of women's emancipation." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation."
- Unknown
In Germany they came first for the Communist, 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
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
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the
people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. --Declaration of Independence
(or by Thomas Jefferson, 1776)
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to
be free. --Charles Evans Hughes (1862 -1948)
It is only when the People become ignorant and corrupt, when they
degenerate into a populace that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Let us, by all wise and constitutional
measures, promote intelligence among the People, as the best means of preserving our liberties. --James Monroe
It is in the inherent nature of human beings to yearn for freedom,
equality and dignity. Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic desire for freedom and dignity.--H.
H. Dalai Lama
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting
the other man's freedom. --Clarence Darrow
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk
of heresy. --Learned Hand, American Judge
Freedom is rarely lost in a single stroke. The danger lies in losing
it bit by bit. -- Dennis Patrick, former FCC Chairman
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought
which they avoid. --Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Philosopher
Love / Romance
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am
when I am with you. - Roy Croft
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart
or burn down your house, you can never tell. - Joan Crawford
Came but for friendship, and took away love. - Thomas Moore
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen you, and you
are enough. - Unknown Author
The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used
to love you. - Unknown Author
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and
glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather
remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. - Margaret Mitchell (Author,
"Gone With The Wind")
"Just the thought of being with you tomorrow is enough to
get me through today." -- Anon.
"Love is not the dieing moan of a distant violin--it is the
triumphant twang of a bedspring." ---S.J. Perelman
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old
age, but they die young. - A.W. Pinero
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful
because you love me? - Cinderella
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- Theodore M. Hesburgh
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved. - George Elliot
"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because
it sees more, it is willing to see less"--Rabbi Julius Gordon
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking
together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900-1944, French aviator, author
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which
becomes a habit." -- Peter Ustinov, b. 1921, British actor, writer, director
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive?
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 anything, you risk even more." -- Erica Jong, b.
1942, American author
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we
are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old
age, but they die young." - Arthur Pinero
"In all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the
most fatal to true happiness." - Unattributed
"Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love
is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Franklin P. Jones
"No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long
feign where it is lacking." - La Rochefougauld
"If you don’t know how to need someone, you don’t
know how to love." - J. B. Fees
"Love gives itself, it is not bought." - Longfellow
"I am not one of those who do not believe in love at first
sight, but I do believe in taking a second look." - H. Vincent
"I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have lived
and loved." - Schiller
"It is better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved
at all." - Tennyson
"The magic of first love is the ignorance that it can never
end." - Unattributed
"Love is just a chemical reaction, but it’s fun trying
to find the formula." - Unknown
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
- Unknown
"In literature, as in love, we are astonished by what is
chosen by others." - Andre’ Maurois
"Him that I love, I wish to be free - even from me." - Anne
Morrow Lindbergh
"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
-- Oscar Wilde
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."
-Barbara DeAngelis
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent,
protects you from age."--Jeanne Moreau
Tolerance
"Be kind; remember that everyone you meet is fighting their own
hard battle." - Unattributed
"Despise not any man and do not spurn anything, for there is no
man that has not his hour, nor is there any thing that has not its place." - Rabbi Banazai
"There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the
best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"However degraded or wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still
a member of our common species." - Seneca
"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."
- Joseph Fort Newton
"No one needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give."
- Frank Irving Fletcher
"Each one of us is a mixture of good qualities and some, perhaps,
not so good qualities. In remembering our fellow man, we should remember his good qualities and realize that his faults only
prove that he is, after all, a human being. We should refrain from making harsh judgment of a person just because he happens
to be a dirty, rotten, no good son of a bitch!" - Unattributed
"A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs. He is jolted
disagreeably by every stone in the road." - Unknown
"If we take people as they are, we tend to make them worse. If we
take people as they could be, we can get better." - John Howard Griffin
There is just enough room in the world for all the people in it,
but there is no room for the fences which separate them. --Father Taylor
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so
no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
"If you would judge, understand." - Seneca
His absence is good company. ---Scottish saying
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test
of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. -- Ralph W. Stockton
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