Quotes

"And in this moment we are beholden to what it cost, to what it takes for one perfect world can we learn to live another way?" Amy Ray

"We've lost friends and loved ones much too young with so much promise and work left undone when all that guards us is a single center line and the brutal crossing over when it's time well I don't know where it all begins and I don't know where it all will end we're better for all that we let in." Emily Saliers

"Clear skies baby
Healthy forests
No Child Left Behind
Wake up people

Big Brother is watchin' you
They're takin' all your rights away
Don't claim that you represent me cause
I don't believe a word that ya say

What can I do
What can I say
When they just speak at
Us in riddles
How can this be
Why can't ya see
That they just speak
At us in riddles" Joan Jett

"It ain't mine
It ain't yours
But I'm here
I ain't goin' anywhere

It ain't his
It ain't hers
It's for all
Is that somethin' we can learn

It's time we stop all the hatin'
Let's start today
Go find a way" Joan Jett

"If what you seek is not found within it will not be found without."

-unknown-

"Live simply, so that others may simply live." -Unknown-

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on - Robert Frost

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges - Joseph F. Newton

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars - Oscar Wilde

The cruelest lies are often told in silence - Robert Louis Stevenson

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater - Unknown

To be nobody but myself, in a world which is doing its best. To fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting - ee cummings

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage - Seneca

Make strangers your friends and your friends alot stranger - Unknown

Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest - Mark Twain

I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work - Thomas Alva Edison

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity - Einstein

How will you know I am hurting,
If you cannot see my pain?
To wear it on my body,
Tells what words cannot explain - C. Blount

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them - Albert Einstein

It only takes one smile
To hide a million tears - Unknown

Not all scars show
Not all wounds heal
Sometimes you can't always see
The pain someone feels - Unknown

Never look down on anybody unless
you're helping them up. - Jesse Jackson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't judge those who try and fail,
judge those who fail to try - Unknown

You only see what I choose to show you
Behind my smiles you just don’t know - Unknown

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where
there is no path and leave a trail - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must be the change you wish
to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi

Only those who will risk going too far can
possibly find out how far one can go - T. S. Eliot

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silences of our friends - Martin Luther King Jr.

Never Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake - Napolean Bonaparte

You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you're all the same - Charlie Manson

From the thrusting up of the Rocky Mountains, to the carving down of the Grand Canyon. Great change only comes from conflict. But where nature's greatest conflict consists of relentless pounding of water on rock, or collisions under the earth's crust, for people to change, it takes other people - Everwood

This above all; to thine own self be true - William Shakespeare

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up - Mark Twain

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves - James Barrie

"Do not dishonor the spirit of the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man."
-- Henry Beston

"The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself."
- Joseph Sobran

"Wisdom before weapons."

-Xena-

"Heaven endures and the Earth lasts a long time because they do not live for themselves therefore she who would live a long time should live for others."
-Xena-

"To conquer others is to have power, but to conquer ourselves is to know the way."
-Xena-

"Knowing the way is like being a child crying and laughing all day without being hoarse. Small people hate lonliness but the master makes it her home, her source, her mother, for she knows it allows her to be one with the universe. The master knows no expectations, therefore no disappointment and thus she stays young forever."
-Xena-

"The entire world is driven by a will blind and ruthless. In order to transcend the limitations of this world you have to stop willing, stop desiring, stop hating."
-Xena-

"Fill yourself with desire and see only illusion, empty yourself of desire and understand the great mystery of things."

-Xena-

"Fear is a weapon of the wicked, but a tool of the righteous. End the war between the mind and the heart. Peace must be found within before it can be actualized."

-Xena-

"Your truth is in your heart when you find it, you will find the strength to live your life for yourself."
- Melissa Etheridge-

"Speak True, Be Strong, Spread The Peace"

-Melissa Etheridge-

"Come listen close and I'll try to let you know it's all I know there is no magic there are no secrets we all begin this race at the start but I have come this far with a truth of the heart deep down inside I think we're all the same try not to judge someone and never shame I do believe that people are good they just want hope and respect and to be understood. Sometimes it's hard sometimes it's strange but the truth if the heart is people can change."
-Melissa Etheridge-

"They're sending soldiers to distant places X's and O's on someone's drawing board. Like green and plastic but with human faces. And they want to tell you it's a merciful sword. But with all the blood newly dried in the desert can we not fertilize the land with something else. There is no nation by God exempted lay down your weapons and love your neighbor as yourself."

- Emily Saliers -

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