“May your choices reflect your hopes not your fears.”
~Nelson Mandela
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Quotation of the Day
“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”
~Najwa Zebian
Quotation of the Day
“We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.” ~Mary Oliver
Quotation of the Day
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
~Oscar Wilde
Maya Angelou, 1928-2014
My two favorite Maya Angelou quotations:
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
Have you read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
Quotation of the Day: Love Edition
When they criticize you, love them for teaching you humility.
When they heap scorn upon you, love them for helping you discover your resiliency.
When they doubt you, love them for giving your dreams greater courage.
When they point out your faults, love them for their accuracy.
When they wound you, love them for showing you your capacity to forgive.
When they try to stop you, love them for making your resolve even stronger.
When they cast you into darkness, love them for helping you discover your inextinguishable light.
And when you stand victorious, when your love has conquered the impossible challenge, invite them to stand with you so they too can see that love is invincible
~Attributed to Cory Booker
Quotation of the Day: Beautiful People Do Not Just Happen
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Quotation of the Day: Go Play
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“There’s a huge part of the advertising industry whichis designed to capture children. And it’s destroying childhood. Anyone who has any experience with children can see this. It’s literally destroying childhood. Kids don’t know how to play. They can’t go out and, you know,like when you were a kid or when I was a kid, you have a Saturday afternoon free. You go out to a field and you’re finding a bunch of other kids and play ball or something. You can’t do anything like that. It’s gotto be organized by adults, or else you’re at home with your gadgets, your video games. But the idea of going out just to play with all the creative challenge, those insights: that’s gone. And it’s done consciously to trap children from infancy and then to turn them into consumer addicts. And that means you’re out for yourself. You got the Ayn Rand kind of sociopathic behavior, which comes straight out of the consumer culture. Consumer culture means going out for myself; I don’tgive a damn about anyone else. I think it’s really destroying society in a lot of ways. And education is part of it.”
~Noam Chomsky
Click here for the full interview.
Quotation of the Day: Doctor Who Edition
“Violence doesn’t end violence, it extends it.”
They Should Study Their History Books
“History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans’ ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tendsto be good for demand and good for markets. These capitalists who ware desperate to elect Republicans should study their history books,”
~Jeremy Granham, co-founder of GMO
