DON’T EVER, EVER assume that anything you do, particularly if it’s an act of conscience. won’t make a difference.
RANDY KEELER. VIETNAM WAR RESISTER JAILED.
WITHOUT CULTURE and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect. is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
ALBERT CAMUS
ALBERT EINSTEIN TO MARIE CURIE: I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive and your honesty and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin too, real people with whom one feels privileged be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.
EMMET FOX 1886-1951. “The Golden Key”, “The Sermon on the Mount”.
YOU MUST NOT ALLOW yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.
THE ART OF LIFE IS to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
LIFE IS A STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
IF YOU COULD ONLY LOVE ENOUGH, YOU COULD BE THE MOST POWERFUL PERSON IN THE WORLD.
SUPPLY yourself with a mental equivalent and the thing must come to you.
YOU must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
IT IS THE FOOD which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
IT makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble. how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
HERMAN MELVILLE – – 1819-1891 – -“Moby Dick” “Typee” “Billy Budd”
AMITY ITSELF CAN ONLY BE MAINTAINED BY RECIPROCAL RESPECT & TRUE FRIENDS ARE PUNCTILIOUS EQUALS.
THERE is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
TO KNOW how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
BETTER SLEEP WITH A SOBER CANNIBAL THAN A DRUNKEN CHRISTIAN.
HOPE is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
JAMES A. BALDWIN=1924-1987 – “THE FIRE NEXT TIME””ANOTER COUNTRY”
THE CHALLENGE IS IN THE MOMENT; THE TIME IS ALWAYS NOW.
IMAGINE one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense once hate is gone they will be forced to deal with pain.
ONE cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own.
YOU HAVE TO decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
PEOPLE WHO SHUT THEIR EYES TO REALITY SIMPLY INVITE THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
THE PLACE IN WHICH I’LL FIT WILL NOT EXIST UNTIL I MAKE IT.