"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."
Will Durant
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
Dalai Lama
"Why would we let someone else’s darkness cast a shadow on our own life?
"The Law-of-Destination is straightforward and simple: It is not possible to arrive where we never take the time to go."
Heather K. O'Hara
“Everything terrible is something that needs our love.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
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"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
"People only see the decisions you made and not the choices you had"
"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
Pope John Paul II
Get Together
"Wisdom isn’t something handed down by institutions or represented by degrees—it’s earned through exploration, reflection, and a relentless openness to learning from the world around us.”
"It never hurts to keep looking for a little sunshine"
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy, sunshine in my eyes can make me cry.
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely, sunshine almost always makes me high.
If I had a day that I could give you, I’d give to you the day just like today.
If I had a song that I could sing for you, I’d sing a song to make you feel this way.
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy, sunshine in my eyes can make me cry.
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely, sunshine almost always makes me high.
If I had a tale that I could tell you, I’d tell a tale sure to make you smile.
If I had a wish that I could wish for you, I’d make a wish for sunshine for all the while.
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy, sunshine in my eyes can make me cry.
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely, sunshine almost always makes me high.
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy, sunshine in my eyes can make me cry.
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely, sunshine almost always makes me high.
Sunshine almost all the time makes me high. Sunshine almost always…
(written by John Denver)
"Walk while you can"
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel *, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum *
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT * now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
© January 7, 1970; Siquomb Publishing Corp
“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
George CarlinThoughts: There are lots of tufts of grass and flowers growing in cracks in the concrete. They are the stories of kindness, empathy, caring and sharing that are everywhere around us if we stop focusing on the anger, hate and violence that is attempting to pave over our world.
"Whatever anyone does or says, for my part I'm bound to the good... In the same way
an emerald or gold or purple might always proclaim: 'whatever anyone does or says, I must be what I am and show my true colours"
“The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
“There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.”
"I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations."
Barbra Streisand"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
Marie Curie
"As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were"
Paulo Coelho
"Your time is better spent championing good ideas than tearing down bad ones ..."
James Clear
"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."
Potter Stewart
“But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.”
"All of us are working on the same project. Some consciously,with understanding; some without knowing it. Some of us work in one way, and some in others. And those who complain and try to obstruct and thwart things... the world needs them too."
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion"
“When you ask, “Why do we do it this way?” and the only answer is “Because that’s how it’s always been done,” that rule deserves another look.”
"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."
Colin Powell
"If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own."
Epictetus
"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."
Will Durant
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."
Denis Waitley
"A man is only as good as what he loves."
Saul Bellow
