life

Under the clouds of war

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

former Republican President of the USA

Always make new mistakes.

— Esther Dyson

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.

— G.K. Chesterton

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunity.

— Pogo

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

— Rabindranath Tagore

People single me out for being an activist, but I always say that the impulse is inborn - it just needs to be nurtured. It starts when you're little, and you see some kids being unkind to another kid on the bus. Maybe you do something. Maybe you don't. But there was that little hint in your brain that something was wrong, that you weren't comfortable with the situation.

— Susan Sarandon

I slept and dreamt that life was joy,
I awoke and saw that life was service,
I acted and behold, service was joy.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened
about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

— Marianne Williamson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.

— Rosellen Brown
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