It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about. Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004 US actress & television talk show host (1954 - ) If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman US poet (1819 - 1892) The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience. David P. Mikkelson, Snopes.com, 04-10-04 Writer at snopes.com If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. Robert F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1925 - 1968) It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what? Friedrich Nietzsche, So spake Zarathoustra German philosopher (1844 - 1900) The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse. Seneca, Letters to Lucilius V Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime! Edwin Louis Cole And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not. Soren Kierkegaard, "The Sickness Unto Death" Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855) |