Present your family and friends

Present your family and friends

with their eulogies now - they won’t be able

to hear how much you love them and appreciate them

from inside the coffin.

- Anonymous -

You can kiss your family

You can kiss your family and friends

good-bye and put miles between you,

but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart,

your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world

but a world lives in you.

- Frederick Buechner -

Sticks and stones are hard

Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
- Phyllis McGinley -

Oh the comfort

Oh,

the comfort - the inexpressible

comfort of feeling safe with a person - having

neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,

but pouring them all right out, just as they are,

chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand

will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and

then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

- Dinah Craik -

There’s one sad truth in life

There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -

We are free truly free

We are free, truly free,

when we don’t need to rent

our arms to anybody in order to

be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

- Ricardo Flores Magon -

Many politicians

Many politicians are in

the habit of laying it down as

a self-evident proposition that no people

ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.

The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who

resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

- Thomas Macaulay -

We on this continent

We on this continent should

never forget that men first crossed the

Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but

to secure liberty for their souls.

- Robert J. McCracken -

Here is my advice

Here is my advice as we

begin the century that will lead to 2081.

First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs.

Be alert that dictators have always played on the

natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

And don’t regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you

respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free,

public, unhampered expression.

- Gerard K. -

Liberty is the possibility of doubting

Liberty is the possibility of doubting,

of making a mistake,… of searching and experimenting,…

of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical,

religious, social, and even political.

- Ignazio Silone -