“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group… If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.”
Carl Sagan, COSMOS
“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
Roy T. Bennett
“First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.”
Aberjhani
How could you argue sense into someone who believed something, not because it was true, but because he was an idiot?
Lois McMaster Bujold
“I distrust people who know so well what god wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
Susan B. Anthony
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
Theodore Roosevelt