Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt
To be successful you have to be dumb enough to think you can change the world and smart enough to know how. ~ Clint Borgen
Learning new ways in not a matter of being told but one risking and discovering in a loving, trusting context. People were always telling me how I should be (their way of course). I often used to be accused of being stubborn. Starting out by loving and trusting myself, I found I was willing enough if I were shown new possibilities with love and understanding, and then I could take the steps in my way, taking only those which fit me. The key was in discovering those little steps. I learned I couldn't hurry and there were no shortcuts. I came to "reserve the right to be mentally retarded but educable". Even though I coined that phrase many years ago I increasingly find wisdom in it. It seems that I can learn from my risk taking even though retrospectively it looked foolish. - Virginia Satir
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while Truth again reverts to a new minority - Sooren Kierkegaard
Time stands still for two things, not the pope nor the president; lovers, for love is eternal, and ideas, for ideas never die. -Ruben David Garcia
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise.
- William Blake, Eternity
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.~ Mahatma Gandhi
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
We have some good people in politics - it's just that they don't win. In the same way we have some good movies, but they don't succeed in the US.
I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself. - Brittany Rene
You have to be brave in this culture to say, "This turns me on." ~ Rufus Wainwright
I paid the price of solitude but at least I'm out of debt. - Bob Dylan
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. Francois Mauriac
Love is our freedom. ~ Milan Kundera
"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love". ~ Tom Robbins
I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" On The Road (1957) Jack Kerouac
Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH... Big Sur (1962) Jack Kerouac
But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. - Milan Kundera
Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden... ~ Milan Kundera
Yes, it's mad. Love is either madness or nothing at all. ~ Milan Kundera
If we cannot change the world, let's at least change our lives and live them freely. If every life is unique, let's live uniquely. Let's reject everything that is not fresh and new. ~ Milan Kundera
It's simple
I want to make love with you
when the rain wets your shirt
when you give your hand
underneath my skirt.
I'm coming now