"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."

- Thomas Jefferson

 

 

“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”

― Bruce Coville

"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it."

- George Orwell

 

 

 “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.” 

— Mother Theresa

 

 

“What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.” 

~ Helen Keller

 

Wilderness of Mirrors

 

"when your best friend is a mirror"

 

"Ignorant and prejudice people like to be deceived." 

- Paladin,1959

Comic Relief

 

 

"Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless. Your health is wealth. Your time is gold.”

 ~Unknown

Sounds Like the Truth

 

 

 

Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.

P. M. FORNI, Choosing Civility

 

 "Losses are a part of life - universal, unavoidable, inexorable.

And these losses are necessary because we grow

by losing and leaving and letting go."

                                                - Judith Viorst

 

 

 

"It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

 “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.” — Steve Jobs (Jobs’ biological sister Mona Simpson reported these being Jobs last words before he died.)

“It is very beautiful over there!” — Thomas Edison (These words were reported as being spoken by Edison by his physician days before he died as he awoke from a nap and gazed upward.)

 

"Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.” 

~Miyamoto Musashi

 

"Offering healthcare to people? Sounds like something Christ would do."

 

"Rock bottom will teach you more lessons than mountain tops ever will."

 "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President." 

- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

 

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” 

– Abraham Lincoln

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

― Plato

“Beware of Destination Addiction - a preoccupation with the idea that happiness in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.”