Opponent's victory

...1st step

Trust is the first step to love. 

-Premchand, novelist and poet (1880-1936)

...who wake

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
- Matthew Prior

Friendship Day

Beyond Boundaries!

Art of being kind

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.

I am the voice of the voiceless;
Through me the dumb shall speak,
Till the deaf world's ear be made to hear
The wrongs of the wordless weak.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (1850-1919)

Price of peace...

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things. 

-Amelia Earhart, aviator (1897-1937)

Prisoner of Past

really want Vs. really need

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
- Vernon Howard

Can succeed best...

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed." 

- Napoleon Hill

find the ways

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. 

-Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (1918-2013)

What Was War?

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" 

-Eve Merriam, poet and writer (1916-1992)

Self discipline

Open heart

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. 

-Carlos Santana, musician (b. 20 Jul 1947)

arms are for..

I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging. 

-Betty Williams, peace activist, Nobel laureate (1943-2020)

start fixing the world

Stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world! 

-V (formerly Eve Ensler), playwright and activist (b. 25 May 1953)

brave is...

He who is brave is free.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Cross the sea...

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Opposite of two...

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. 

-Richard Wilbur, poet and translator (1921-2017)

...never yourself

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Margot Fonteyn

..obvious becomes less obvious

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

 -R. Buckminster Fuller, engineer, designer, and architect (1895-1983)

...the sky

You are the sky. Everything else -- it's just the weather. 

-Pema Chodron, Buddhist nun and author (b. 14 Jul 1936)

who keep silent

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. 

-Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet, Nobel laureate (b. 13 Jul 1934)

...healed of

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full. 

-Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)

Kind of immortality

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. 

-John Quincy Adams, 6th president of the US (1767-1848)

Fear is the most painful..

As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth -- whatever the truth may be -- that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life. 

-June Jordan, writer, teacher, and activist (1936-2002)

Tongue of the mind

The pen is the tongue of the mind.
- Horace

Burning the bridges

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
- Dylan Thomas

return we reap...

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
- Francesco Guicciardini

a poet's job

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

 -Jean Cocteau, author and painter (1889-1963)

courage & fear

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

...a book with a couple of legs

"In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time—none.  Zero.  You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads—and how much I read.  My children laugh at me.  They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out." 

– Charlie Munger

Altruism

This month's theme: ALTRUISM - Selflessly working for the well-being and happiness of others.

..runs out fast

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. 

-Julie Burchill, writer and journalist (b. 3 Jul 1959)

Activate dreams

..power to live

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

endless immensity

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. 

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1944)

essence of instinct

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

- Charles Darwin

greatest gift...

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.

 -Virginia Satir, psychotherapist and author (1916-1988)