the true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others
[madame de maintenon]
everyone is capable of dying but it takes a courageous man to live
but as for me I'm coming to my final failure,
i've killed myself with changes trying to make things better,
and ended up becoming something other,
than what I had planned to be
[bright eyes - a perfect sonnet]
what did you ever do to change the world?
[trevor mckenny - pay it forward]
maybe we're not supposed to be happy. maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. appreciating small victories. admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. and maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. at the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.
[meredith - grey's anatomy]
if you are a dreamer, come in,
if you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
a hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
if you're a pretender, come sit by my fire
for we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
come in!
come in!
[invitiation - shel silverstein]
we must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools
[martin luther king jr]