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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 20-02-2023
ÔÇ£How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbritary, clearly invented balderdash?
The acceptance of a creed, any creed entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended famliy we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness.
Any time I see a person fleeing from reason & into religion, I think there goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely any more.
Kurt Vonnegut
ÔÇ£I don't know how to save the world. I don't have the answers ot The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge of how to fix the mistakes of generations past & present. I only know that without compassion & respect for all of earth's inhabitants, none of us will survive ÔÇô nor will we deserve to.ÔÇØ
Leonard Peltier.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 21-02-2023
ÔÇ£People don't realise how hard it is to speak truth to a world full of people who don't realise they're living a lie.ÔÇØ
Edward Snowden
ÔÇ£Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.ÔÇØ
Twyla Tharp
ÔÇ£Music to me is the perfect expression of the soul.ÔÇØ
Schumann
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 22-02-2023
ÔÇ£I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first & foremost & as such I'm for whoever & whatever benefits humanity as a whole.ÔÇØ
Malcolm X
ÔÇ£It is alittle embarrassing that, after forty five years of research & study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.ÔÇØ
Aldous Huxley
ÔÇ£If we quit trying it all goes in the shitterÔÇØ.
David Crosby
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 23-02-2023
ÔÇ£There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.ÔÇØ
Ernest Hemingway
ÔÇ£Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
ÔÇ£I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.ÔÇØ
Ernest Hemingway
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 24-02-2023
ÔÇ£The true strength of rulers & empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open & true & legal. As soon as a govt departs from that standard, it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession' & its days are numbered.ÔÇØ
H.G.Wells
ÔÇ£Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.ÔÇØ
Robert Louis Stevenson
ÔÇ£If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who & how you are, to astonish a mean wolrd with your kindness.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 25-02-2023
ÔÇ£He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.ÔÇØ -
Immanuel Kant
ÔÇ£You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. DonÔÇÖt make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people canÔÇÖt take their eyes off of you.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
ÔÇ£Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 26-02-2023
ÔÇ£Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£All great achievements require time.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Nothing will work unless you do.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 27-02-2023
ÔÇ£Success is loving life and daring to live it.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Talent is like electricity. We donÔÇÖt understand electricity. We use it.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 28-02-2023
ÔÇ£While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 01-03-2023
ÔÇ£The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 02-03-2023
ÔÇ£Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you canÔÇÖt practice any other virtue consistently.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 03-03-2023
ÔÇ£Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We canÔÇÖt be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 04-03-2023
ÔÇ£I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under oneÔÇÖs skin, at the extreme corners of oneÔÇÖs eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Strong women ÔÇö precious jewels all ÔÇö their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 05-03-2023
ÔÇ£A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£DonÔÇÖt let the man bring you down.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 06-03-2023
ÔÇ£Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself ÔÇ£
ÔÇ£If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 07-03-2023
ÔÇ£We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£A friend may be waiting behind a strangerÔÇÖs face.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 08-03-2023
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£If youÔÇÖre for the right thing, you do it without thinking.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£We need much less than we think we need.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 09-03-2023
ÔÇ£Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 10-03-2023
ÔÇ£The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we arenÔÇÖt, we should behave as though we are ÔÇö cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 11-03-2023
ÔÇ£Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
ÔÇ£There is always light. If only weÔÇÖre brave enough to see it. If only weÔÇÖre brave enough to be it.ÔÇØ
Amanda Gorman