| Better pass boldly
into that other world, in the full glory of some
passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
-- James Joyce The Dead |
| Great spirits have always
encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds. -- Albert Einstein |
| What
we really are matters more than what others think
of us. -- Jawaharlal Nehru |
| It's never easy to do the
right thing. It may feel good to stand up for
what you believe in, but even when you're right,
and your cause is true, there is always a price
to be paid. -- Unknown |
| Our
deepest fear is not that we are inadequate -- our
deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond
measure. It is our Light, not our darkness, that
frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be
brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child
of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the
world. There's nothing enlightened about
shrinking so that other people won't feel
insecure around you. We are born to make manifest
the Glory of God that is within us. It's not just
in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let
our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other
people permission to do the same. As we are
liberated from our fears, our presence
automatically liberates others. -- Nelson
Mandella |
| Some
people are so afraid to die that they never begin
to live. -- Henry Van Dyke |
| What lies behind us
and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Truth
has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -
always." - Albert Schweitzer, German-born
missionary and Nobel Prize laureate (1875-1965). |
| "The only tyrant
I accept in this world is the 'still small voice'
within me." - Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948). |
| "You
measure democracy by the freedom it gives its
dissidents, not the freedom it gives its
assimilated conformists." -- Abbie Hoffman |
| "If you judge
people, you have no time to love them."
-Mother Theresa |
| "To
love another person is to see the face of
God." -- Les Miserables |
| "We've had too
many World AIDS Days." -- Richard Gere |
| Silence
kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities
to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what
makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's
nothing. -- Marlon Riggs |
| I've
learned that God doesn't punish people. I've
learned that God doesn't dislike homosexuals,
like a lot of Christians think. AIDS isn't their
fault, just like it isn't my fault. God loves
homosexuals as much as He loves everybody else.
-- Ryan White |
| I
have a beautiful address book a friend gave me in
1966. I literally cannot open it again. Ever. It
sits on the shelf with over a hundred names
crossed out. What is there to say? There are no
words. I'll never understand why it happened to
us. -- Jerry Herman |
As
Oscar Wilde said in The
Critic as Artist, "Ah!
don't say you agree with me. When people agree
with me I always feel that I must be wrong."
Also, in The Importance of
Being Earnest: "I do
not approve of anything that tampers with natural
ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic
fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone." |
| One owes respect to
the living. To the Dead, one owes only Truth. --
Voltaire |
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