Humanity
Astride Of a Grave
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.
— Thomas Beckett (Pozzo, in WFG)
Magic Things
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
— W. B. Yeats
The Broken World
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.
All things break.
And all things can be mended.
Not with time, as they say, but with intention.
So go.
Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally.
The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
— L. R. Knost
The Illusion of Knowledge
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
— Stephen Hawking
To Change One's Life
To change one’s life:
Start immediately Do it flamboyantly No exceptions — William James
Truth
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not believed.
— William Blake
America
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
— Abraham Lincoln
Be Not Afraid
We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world—its good facts, its bad facts, its beauties, and its ugliness; see the world as it is and be not afraid of it.
— Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian
Citizen of the World
Never, when asked one’s country, answer, ‘I am Athenian or Corinthian,’ but ‘I am a citizen of the world.’
— Epictetus, Discourses, Book I:IX
Equal Affection
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.
— W. H. Auden, The More Loving One