HAPPY PEOPLE ARE IGNORAMUSES AND GLORY IS NOTHING ELSE BUT SUCCESS AND TO ACHIEVE IT ONE ONLY HAS TO BE CUNNING.
MANY a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. MIKHAIL LERMONTOV
NOTHING is more important than empathy for another human being’s suffering. Nothing. not career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we’re going to survive with dignity. AUDREY HEPBURN
PEACE requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us. SARGENT SHRIVER
SUZANNE SOMERS 1946-2023 “Three’s Company”
I SELL MY PROBLEMS. I’M A WOMAN WITH PROBLEMS. I’ve had problems since the day I was born. And I have found a way to turn my problems into assists.
FORGIVENESS IS A GIFT YOU GIVE YOURSELF.
HAVING CANCER is a lonely experience. It is the one time in your life that you cannot ask those closest to you, ‘What should I do?’ It’s too heavy a burden to place on another person. This is your life, your decision and cancer kills.
THE BIGGEST MYTH about aging is that we can’t do anything about it. That it’s a road to being decrepit, frail and sick.
I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it’s doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.
EUGENE O’NEIL 1888-1953. “Long Days Journey Into Night”.
THERE IS NO PRESENT OR FUTURE — ONLY THE PAST, HAPPENING OVER AND OVER AGAIN — NOW.
MAN is born broken. he lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.
WE NEED above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS. 1898-1980. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.
TO BE WHOLE AND HARMONIOUS, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.
SPEECH is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it passes for acceptance of an idea.
I LEARNED EARLY that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. But man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. For fear confines him and limits his scope.
THE WAY TO COMBAT NOXIOUS IDEAS is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
WHEN man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.
SINCE WHEN have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
WHEN a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen’s constitutional right free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.
THE LIBERTIES OF NONE ARE SAFE UNLESS THE LIBERTIES OF ALL ARE PROTECTED.
THOSE IN POWER need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.
I DO not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.
EUGENE O’NEIL: WE FOUGHT so long against small things that we become small ourselves.
IF a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself — ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity — before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.
LIFE IS FOR EACH MAN A SOLITARY CELL WHOSE WALLS ARE MIRRORS.
WRITING IS MY VACATION FROM LIVING.
LIFE is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.
WE are where centuries only count as seconds and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.
DOGS . . . do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects that have not. There is nothing of value that have to bequeath except their love and their faith.
it’s a great game — the pursuit of happiness.
HAPPINESS HATES THE TIMID. SO DOES SCIENCE.
MAN’S LONELINESS IS BUT HIS FEAR OF LIFE.