"Every mighty oak was once a nut that stood its ground."
"The future depends on what we do in the present." Mahatma Gandhi
“We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government,
then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those
forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance.”
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're
scared." Eddie Rickenbacker, top US fighter ace, WWI
If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility.
It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem."
Then
there are those who see the need and respond.
I consider those people my heroes. Fred "Mr." Rogers, Children's
TV Show Star
I don't give in
I don't
give up
And, I don't take NO for an answer.
"Ah,
but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"- Robert Browning
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising every time we fall."-
Confucius
"Constant dripping hollows out a stone."-
Lucretuis
"Unless someone like you cares a whole lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not."
-The Lorax, Dr. Seuss
"Never doubt that a small group of dedicated people could change the
world. Indeed, it is the only thing
that ever has." – Margaret Mead
"Don't
bunt, Aim out of the ballpark."- David Ogilvy
1 in
6 children suffers from a developmental disease ~
1
in 150 have Autism...
There is NO such thing as a
"genetic" epidemic!
Remember, Recovery
is not a race, it's a sprint...
Just gimme some TRUTH!
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (1808)
"Friends are angels that lift us up when we've forgotten how to fly"
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, we must dream; not only plan but
also believe."
"The difference you make
might be all the difference it will take"
“Independent
thought is not popular - it is absolutely, pricelessly, rare.”
“I am filled with hope because I surround myself with people who share my vision.” MKJ
"Perfection Takes Time"
"No longer forward nor behind, I look in hope and fear; But grateful take the good I
find, The best of now and here."- John G. Whittier
"Most
of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all."
- Dale Carnegie
“I know of no safe depository
of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control
with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
Thomas Jefferson, letter to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820
"Natural Forces Within us are the True Healers"-Hippocrates
“The person who succeeds is the person who fails,
then tries again.”….(unkown)
'God
may not always give us answers, but He always gives us grace.'
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He
didn't trust me so much."
Mother Teresa
"People take different roads seeking
fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
-H.
Jackson Brown, Jr.
Leave your drugs in the chemist’s
pot if you can heal the patient with food." Hippocrates.
"I have not failed 10,000 times.
I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work."
-Thomas Edison
“It (illness) can physically guide us onto a path of insight and
learning upon which we would otherwise never have set foot. It may be a catalyst for expanding personal consciousness as well
as for understanding the greater meaning of life.” Carolyn Myss’s author of Why People Don’t Heal, and How
They Can
Gen. George S. Patton Jr
"If everyone
is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."
“Accept
the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”
"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."- Benjamin Franklin
"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."-
Seneca
“Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”
Every ceiling, when reached becomes a floor, upon
which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right."- Aldous Huxley
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
“Pressure makes diamonds.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.”
“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.”
"Make your plans to fit the circumstances."
"Take calculated risks."
"You're never beaten until you admit it."
"It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance."
"Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational
competence."
"The test of success is not
what you do when you’re on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
"A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite
point in the future."
“If you want to
get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.” Norman
Vincent Peale
"You can accomplish anything,
if you don't care who gets the credit."
Harry S. Truman
“To accept a truth that changes our perspective requires a certain humility. It affects the other truths we
hold. That's why we sometimes close our minds. We fear the chain reaction a new insight might have on everything else.”
From: The Little Black Book; Six minute meditations on the Passion according to John
The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the
people who don't do anything about it." -- Albert Einstein
"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget
the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."
Martin Luther King Jr
"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth". Einstein
"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone
who will never be able to repay you."
"It
requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate
sound is forever silenced in oblivion"…Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science
"By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established."
Proverbs
24:3
"Uncertainty is a necessary part of any
leading-edge path. It makes you a better learner." -Scott Noelle
"All truth passes through 3 stages: 1st - It is ridiculed; 2nd - It is violently opposed; 3rd - It is accepted
as SELF EVIDENT." – Arthur Schopenhauer