Let Freedom Ring .... - Martin Luther King And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that: Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
Great quote from a master orator. Speaking of mastery, here's one that I might have posted before... I'm not sure. But it bears repeating: What is a Master "A master is someone who has made more mistakes than you, has made mistakes you haven't made yet, and has learned how to embrace them--thus learning to see them coming before they happen. So you go towards mastery one mistake at a time. How many mistakes can you stand? As many as it takes to be a master. The master has persevered past the errors until he's made all of them." --William Cumpiano, master luthier
"Ignore people who are talking behind your back. That's where they belong - behind your back!" - #ConsciousChic
Just occasionally an author writes something that ties the brain in knots, and gets away with it. "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” - Bilbo Baggins (LOTR) "... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives." Sybill Trelawney (Harry Potter) “There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to." Doc Daneeka, Catch 22 And one author in particular sums it all up for me. “Every writer I know has trouble writing. ” ― Joseph Heller
"Let us hope that the horrors of evil no longer loiter on the doorsteps of your path, beckoning you into the brothel of despair. And that herein after you may present them with the most rigid manifestations of a firm and manly will." Jack Kerouac That quote often provides me with hope when darkness inevitably descends.
"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." - Joe, Joe Versus the Volcano.
Not a quote from anyone published or famous. Just a friend of mine who uttered the thoughts below while I was having a drink with him at a new hang out of his. This is quoted from memory. I have adjusted for clarity and have taken no liberties vis à vis what I think he was trying to say. "I am very self-centered you know, and I tend to think that every one thinks like me. So I watch people as a sort of therapy in order to remind me of how wrong I am in making any assumptions as far as other complex beings are concerned. Some are predictable and some are not. The latter are the ones I am interested in the most."
I don't have an answer to what it means to be human, but I could quote some really good sources. Maybe I'll do that! That's what this thread is, right? I'll be back - "armed & dangerous"! (fav quote )
I bet there are thousands of quotes about human nature. This is a good one: Human nature is that which makes us distinctly human. Our nature is distinct from that of the animals and the rest of creation in that we can think and feel. One of the chief distinctions between human beings and the rest of creation is our ability to reason. No other creature has this ability, and there’s no question that this is a unique gift bestowed by God. Our reason enables us to reflect on our own nature and the nature of God and to derive knowledge of God's will for His creation. No other part of God’s creation has a nature capable of reason. - recommended resource "Created in God's Image" by Anthony Hoekema My own opinion, which is not great: We're all tempted & we'll all fall for it.
"Listen...Listen to the sound of raw silence. Is it not serene?" -Primearch Konrad Kurze- Warhammer 40K
I sometimes say that I'm alright, but I'm not. I wish that somebody came, gave me a hug and told me "No, you are not alright. Here. Take a thousand euros." - Unknown quoter from "The wall had its own hysteria."
"She has changed my life. She embraced my weird ... and I embraced my weird." - Bachelor in Paradise (Yeah, I know it's a daft, sappy program, but for a few minutes I get to pretend I know what real love is! I'm guilty of sappiness!)
"I must soon quit the scene...." Benjamin Franklin in a letter to George Washington March 5, 1780 I imagine the rest of B.F.'s words would likely take away from how cool the abbreviated quote above sounds to us today. I don't have the rest of it so I can't say for sure. I only found this snippet on an opening page of Richard Farina's counterculture novel - Been down so long it looks like up to me which I began rereading last night. Read it in my 20's and remember enjoying it, but now I may not finish it since it is an extremely tiring book to read & follow if you are anywhere above 30 I would say, but then again. I know that I just don't have the same patience for craziness now, - so much like Benny, - .....
I have to quote Mark Twain here: "If you take a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
“An open mind is like to an open wound. Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain.” ― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results." Numerous people are attributed to saying this quote - the most widely accepted being Albert Einstein. "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Dylan Thomas
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein Did I say that once already? I think I did. Lots and lots of times.
I don't know if this fits the category, but I like it. The English poet Alexander Pope was given a commission by the queen: to write a poem short enough to be engraved on the collar of a dog she kept at her palace at Kew Gardens. He submitted this: "I am Her Majesty's dog at Kew. Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?"
