Random Wisdom for Today

[bicker]

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves

~ Albert Einstein

 

[bicker]

We need not think alike to love alike.

~ Ferenc Dávid, a founder of Unitarianism

 

[Charade]

A thermos keeps cold things cold and hot things hot. How does it know?

Anonymous

 

[ConcKahuna]

I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

~Coretta Scott King

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

"GO! GO OUT THERE and be blessed. Know that G-d made you and G-d makes NO MISTAKES!!! You are all children of G-d. We are all children of G-d; perfect as was intended! GO! Be strong!"

Roman Catholic Gay priest addressing the assembled at the 11/15/08 Protest (against Prop 8 and Amendment 2) on the steps of City Hall in Orlando, FL

 

[Feralpeg]

Time flies like the wind...fruit flies like bananas! - Anonymous

 

[yeartolate]

It started witha mouse, it ended with a mousetrap.

 

[bicker]

The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

~ Robert Fulghum

 

[bicker]

Creation is too grand, complex and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed.

~ William Schulz

 

[The Mystery Machine]

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Ghandi

 

[The Mystery Machine]

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has never tried anything new.
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Albert Einstein[/FONT]​

 

[ConcKahuna]

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.

Langston Hughes

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

Lynn Lavner

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Rita Mae Brown

 

[mvazul]

One of my favorites:

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

~Benjamin Franklin

 

[ConcKahuna]

With today being Mickey's 80th, I thought this one was appropriate

Somehow I can't believe there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy and the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Walt Disney

 

[loco4dis]

Some Deep Thoughts from Jack Handey…

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw you into a panic.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.

 

[designermv]

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814

 

[meeskamouska]

Abraham Lincoln



Langston Hughes



Abraham Lincoln



Lynn Lavner



Rita Mae Brown

Thank you. Those are wonderful!!

 

[bicker]

Perhaps the greatest sin of all is turning a Book—and several mistranslated passages—into permission to deny worth, dignity, and legitimacy to people whose only wish is to love deeply and love truly till death do them part.

~ Rev. Tim Kutzmark

 

[ConcKahuna]

The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.

~Thomas Jefferson

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

~Aristotle

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use

~Abraham Lincoln

 

[bicker]

My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird —
equal seekers of sweetness.
Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.​

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,​

which is mostly standing still and learning to be
astonished.
The phoebe, the delphinium.
The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.
Which is mostly rejoicing, since all ingredients are here,​

which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart
and these body-clothes,
a mouth with which to give shouts of joy
to the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,
telling them all, over and over, how it is
that we live forever.​

~ Mary Oliver