One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. -Rita Mae Brown
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. -Jimi Hendrix, musician, singer, and songwriter (1942-1970)
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -Mark Twain
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. -Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1972- )
The butterfly counts not years but moments and has time enough. -Rabindranath Tagore
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
-Rita Mae Brown, writer (1944- )
Underground nuclear testing, defoliation of the rain forests, toxic waste … Let’s put it this way: if the world were a big apartment, we wouldn’t get our deposit back. -John Ross
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. -Alice Kahn
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953
Why should I give them my mind as well? -Dalai Lama, when asked if he wasn’t angry at the Chinese for taking over his country. (1935- )
This was written by a young high school student in Florida. There are some powerful lessons to heed in her essay: http://www.thisibelieve.org/dsp_ShowEssay.php?uid=43395&topessays=2&start=0
The courage that my mother had
Went with her, and is with her still:
Rock from New England quarried;
Now granite in a granite hill.
The golden brooch my mother wore
She left behind for me to wear;
I have no thing I treasure more:
Yet, it is something I could spare.
Oh, if instead she’d left to me
The thing she took into the grave!–
That courage like a rock, which she
Has no more need of, and I have.
-Edna St Vincent Millay
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do it every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. –Christopher Morley
