Thoughts...

Aug 19, 2020

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

Nelson Mandela

Life

"Don't let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you.
Don't fill your mind with all the bad things that might still happen.
Stay focused on the present situation and ask yourself why it's so
unbearable and can't be survived."

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.36

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
Thomas Jefferson

Friendship

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way." 

Martin Luther King

"To the press alone, checkered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."

James Madison , founding father and of the first amendment

"If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done."

Thomas Jefferson

"We are exposed to greater danger with our backs turned."  

Seneca

Facing danger

Oct 21, 2019

"The most basic of human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them."  

Ralph Nichols

Listening

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi

Change

"When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Not giving up