Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

-Earl Wilson

"And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing...a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods."

~Aldous Huxley, 1959

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi

Quotes on racism

“My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years.” Kurt Kobain

"The fight for peace is one for a stable and racially integrated world"
Tom Hayden, The Port Huron Statement

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race. ~Bill Cosby

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” -The Twits

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

-Roald Dahl

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest revolution of my life is the discovery that individuals can change the outer aspects of their lives by changing the inner attitudes of their minds."

-William James

romantic quotes

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”

“The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.”

“People do not lack strength; they lack will.”

“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."

“To love another person is to see the face of God”

-Victor Hugo (French romantic Poet, Novelist and Dramatist, 1802-1885)

"Nobody said that it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it."

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Sanity

Sanity, in the way that our culture defines it, is killing the human spirit and devastating the earth. Under these circumstances, craziness is the only option. The question is, are you going to be crazy ugly, or crazy beautiful? Crazy in fear, or crazy in love?

-John Robbins

“I’m an intellectual pessimist and a neuro-chemical optimist.”
– William DeBuys

"He was one of our generation who was determined to give his life to transforming America and Africa. He was committed to ending racial apartheid in our country. He helped to bring those walls down".

-Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson

Strength

“You have to accept whatever comes along and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”

Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice" (Boyd 74). -MLKJr.

"What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it."

"Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind."
-- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling

"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."