Words of Wisdom

Feeling Blue? Maybe these words of wisdom might cheer you up.

"My body may be a work-in-progress, but there is nothing wrong with my soul." ~Felicity Huffman as Bree Osbourne

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Next time you go thumbing through the bible, read a little about compassion, if you can get past Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery"~ Alan Alda as Hawkeye in MASH

Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

~Ecclesiastes 7:9

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.

~Shylock, Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

There will always be people who say mean words because you are different. And sometimes their minds cannot be changed. But there are many more people who do not judge others based on how they look or where they are from. Those are the people whose words truly matter.

~Hynden Walch as Starfire, Teen Titans

This is true love- you think this happens everyday?

~Cary Elwes as Westley, The Princess Bride

To rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

~Ayn Rand

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

~John Lennon

The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.

~Psalm 145:9

Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

~Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Richard M. Nixon, in his White House farewell

In time we hate that which we often fear.

~ Charmian, Antony and Cleopatra  by William Shakespeare

"Anyone who forms an opinion not based on facts,  then the man is a fool,"

~ Earl Hindman as Wilson W. Wilson Jr. Home Improvement

Let us be thankful for the fools.  But for them the rest of us could not succeed. 

~Mark Twain

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

~Sophocles

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

~Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park

"No man is a failure if they have friends"

~It's a Wonderful Life

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

~Galatians 3:28 

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

~Yoda in The Phantom Menace

The most violent element in society is ignorance. 

~Emma Goldman

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

~Dr. Martian Luther King Jr.

"Democracy means freedom of sexual choice between any two consenting adults; Utopia means freedom of choice between three or more consenting adults."

~Johnny Carson's What America Means to Me

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

~Elizabeth Barret Browning:

"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, Gettysburg Address

Remember your humanity and forget the rest.

~Albert Einstein

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

~Albert Einstein

Ignorance a noun, The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed.

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Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity? 

~Steve Polyak

One of the commonest ailments of the present day is premature formation of an opinion.

~Kin Hubbard, cartoonist of Abe Martin

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
~I Corinthians 13:4-8

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

~Elie Wiesel

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. 

~Mark Twain

~Spectrum Alliance T-shirts

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