Martin Luther King Jr.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Karis Nemik's Manifesto, Andor

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.

Emma Jane Rae

Weeping willow with your tears running down,
why do you always weep and frown?
is it because he left you one day?
is it because he couldnt not stay?
on your branches he would swing,
do you love the happiness that he would bring?
he found shelter in your shade,
we thought his laughter would never fade!
Weeping willow stop your tears,
there is something to calm your fears,
you think death as you do forever part,
i know he will always be in your heart!

Nat "King" Cole, Nature Boy

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

1 Corinthians 1:27

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

John 16:33 NIV

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.

Philippians 1: 20, 21 NIV

²⁰ I can hardly wait to continue on my course. I don't expect to be embarrassed in the least. On the contrary, everything happening to me in this jail only serves to make Christ more accurately known, regardless of whether I live or die. They didn't shut me up; they gave me a pulpit!

²¹ Alive, I'm Christ's messenger; dead, I'm his bounty. Life versus even more life! I can't lose.

Genesis 50:20, NIV

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you.

Carl Sagan

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Isaac Asimov

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." ~ Carl Sagan

Lisa Dollar

The best memories are ones that you could never, ever forget.

Lisa Dollar

When an adult says, 'Hi,' he means, 'I acknowledge your presence.' When a child says, 'Hi,' he means, 'I like you. Let's play tag, and afterwards we can throw sand at each other.' I hope I always say hi like a child.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.

Psalm 139:13-18 NIV

¹³ For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. ¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,I know that full well. ¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. ¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. ¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts,^[a] God! How vast is the sum of them! ¹⁸ Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.

Erich Fromm

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Erich Fromm

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Erich Fromm

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Erich Fromm

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.

Erich Fromm

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

Erich Fromm

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture. That was present in the apes long before the brain began to develop. Nor is it the use of tools. It is something altogether new, a previously unknown quality: self-awareness. Animals, too, have awareness. They are aware of objects; they know this is one thing and that another. But when the human being as such was born he had a new and different consciousness, a consciousness of himself; he knew that he existed and that he was something different, something apart from nature, apart from other people, too. He experienced himself. He was aware that he thought and felt. As far as we know, there is nothing analogous to this anywhere in the animal kingdom. That is the specific quality that makes human beings human.

Erich Fromm

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Erich Fromm

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Erich Fromm

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

Erich Fromm

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

Erich Fromm

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Erich Fromm

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

Erich Fromm

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Erich Fromm

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Erich Fromm

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Erich Fromm

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.