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"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor. Still less did she say: Be rich. Her cry to me was always: Be independent." ~Nicolas Chamfort
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. ~Diane Arbus
"We accept the love we think we deserve," ~Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Mahalo Bari for sharing!)
It is not given to us to know which acts, or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing... One of the most…
"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable," ~Raymond Williams
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who loves his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not…
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more ... You are a leader," ~John Quincy Adams
Harry Burns: There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance. Sally Albright: Which one am I? Harry Burns: You're the worst kind; you're high maintenance but you think you're low maintenance. Sally Albright: I don't se…
As the child of a black man and white woman, born in the melting pot of Hawaii, with a sister who is half-Indonesian, but who is usually mistaken for Mexican, and a brother-in-law and niece of Chinese descent, with some relatives who resemb…
Jess: I don't understand this relationship. Harry: What do you mean? Jess: You enjoy being with her? Harry: Yeah. Jess: You find her attractive? Harry: Yeah. Jess: And you're not sleeping with her. Harry: No. Jess: You're afraid to let your…
“You don’t get to do that - come into somebody’s life, make them care and then just check out.” ~Dale on the Walking Dead finale
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.” …
Three notes walk into a bar – a C an E Flat and a G. The bartender looks up and says “We don’t serve minors.” So the E flat leaves and the other two have a fifth between them.
“The highest patriotism demands the ending of the war & the opening of a bloodless war to final victory over racism & poverty” ~The Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
... But she grew up tall, and she grew up right with them (Colorado) boys on a (Colorado) night ...
"You are a Word Sender. The world is like a garden. Over this garden go your words like rain and where they fall, they leave it a little greener. And when your words have passed, the memory of them will live in the West like a Flaming Rainb…