"Yes,” I whisper so the others won’t hear, “but being afraid is good because it means I still have more to lose."
Caroline George
Inspiration
Success is not an outcome of coincidence, but rather the tangible result of choice: Comfort or ambition; fleeting pleasure or lasting fulfillment; walking past the open gate, or walking through it.
Evan W. Dorren
Inspiration
The love we have for our native land would be good and praiseworthy if it did not degenerate, as we see it does everywhere, into vanity, the spirit of predominance, acquisitiveness, hate, envy, nationalism, and militarism.
Henri Barbusse
"It is good netiquette to use domains that do not allow spam, hate, or violence. NetworkEtiquette.Net."
David Chiles
Inspiration
What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.
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Inspiration
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius
"As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system."
Saul Alinsky
Inspiration
Wiseman participates, others are just observers.
Santosh Avvannavar
"Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth..."
Keri Hulme
"You will never be fully resigned to the will of God if you are troubled by human opinion of you, or if you make for yourself a little idol of what people say."
Michael Molinos
"The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy."
Nadeem Aslam
"For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace."
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