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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 24-12-2023
ÔÇ£Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a human. Just as one wants happiness & fears pain, just as one wants to live & not die, so do other creatures.ÔÇØ
Dalai Lama
ÔÇ£Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.ÔÇØ
Albert Schweitzer
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 24-12-2023
A poem for a change
Summons
Last night I dreamed
ten thousand grandmothers
from the twelve hundred corners of the earth
walked out into the gap
one breath deep
between the bullet and the flesh
between the bomb and the family.
They told me we cannot wait for governments.
There are no peacekeepers boarding planes.
There are no leaders who dare to say
every life is precious, so it will have to be us.
They said we will cup our hands around each heart.
We will sing the earthÔÇÖs song, the song of water,
a song so beautiful that vengeance will turn to weeping,
the mourners will embrace, and grief replace
every impulse toward harm.
Ten thousand is not enough, they said,
so, we have sent this dream, like a flock of doves
into the sleep of the world. Wake up. Put on your shoes.
You who are reading this, I am bringing bandages
and a bag of scented guavas from my trees. I think
I remember the tune. Meet me at the corner.
LetÔÇÖs go.
Aurora Levins Morales
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 24-12-2023
Beautiful and eclectic poem.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 25-12-2023
ÔÇ£Having a cat or dog will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind.
Having both a pet & a book... absolute heaven.ÔÇØ
Mark Rubinstein
ÔÇ£Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who only know what to think.ÔÇØ
Neil deGrasse Tyson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 26-12-2023
ÔÇ£Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.ÔÇØ
Arthur C Clarke
ÔÇ£One day
a small group of angry men will
declare a war
and no one will show up to fight
because we'll be collectively finished with
with violence
with greed
with fear
one day."
Daniel Baylis
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 27-12-2023
ÔÇ£The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.ÔÇØ
Israel Regardie
"Thou who passest on this path,
If haply thou dost mark this monument,
Laugh not, I pray thee, though it is a dog's grave.
Tears fell for me, and the dust was heaped above me
By a master's hand."
Ancient Greek epitaph
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 28-12-2023
ÔÇ£I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.ÔÇØ
Montesquiei
ÔÇ£Peace is the only batle worth waging.ÔÇØ
Albert Camus
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 29-12-2023
ÔÇ£Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the presence of justice.ÔÇØ
William Faulkner
ÔÇ£Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.ÔÇØ
Martin Luther King Jr.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 30-12-2023
ÔÇ£Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.ÔÇØ
┬áÔÇ£We are not makers of history. We are made by history.ÔÇØ┬á
Martin Luther King, Jr.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 31-12-2023
ÔÇ£The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character ÔÇö that is the goal of true education.ÔÇØ
Martin Luther King, Jr.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 01-01-2024
ÔÇ£All labour that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man canÔÇÖt ride you unless your back is bent.ÔÇØ
Martin Luther King, Jr.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 02-01-2024
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.ÔÇØ
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 03-01-2024
ÔÇ£Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.ÔÇØ
Martin Luther King, Jr.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 04-01-2024
ÔÇ£We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.ÔÇØ
Martin Luther King, Jr.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 05-01-2024
ÔÇ£One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong. ÔÇ£
ÔÇ£I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history.ÔÇØ
Martin Luther King, Jr.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 06-01-2024
The Narcissist's Prayer
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 06-01-2024
ÔÇ£I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.ÔÇØ
Martin Luther King jnr
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 07-01-2024
ÔÇ£You must be willing to suffer the anger of the opponent, and yet not return anger. No matter how emotional your opponents are, you must remain calm.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.ÔÇØ
Martin Luther King Jr.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 08-01-2024
ÔÇ£They hang the man & flog the woman,
That steal the goose from off the common
But lets the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own,
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.ÔÇØ
circa 1764
English nursery rhyme
"I never have been in despair about the world. Enraged. I've been enraged by the world, but never despair. I cannot afford despair. You can't tell the children that there is no hope."
James Baldwin
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 08-01-2024
The nursery rhyme is great and the James Baldwin quote food for thought, thanks Lilith7.