Blooming on an Island of Blue in a Sea of Red
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
- John Kenneth Galbraith
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
"Everybody wants to BE somebody; nobody wants to GROW." - Goethe
"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." — Anne Lamott
"Live like you were going to die tomorrow, learn like you were going to live forever." - Gandhi
"We have one simple rule here: Be kind." - from "Lost Horizon"
“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.” ~ Eugene McCarthy
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." -Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"A liar is worse than a thief; you can watch a thief, but you can't watch a liar."
"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business." - Gertrude Stein
"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was."
- Irish Proverb
"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Emerson
"However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us." - Eric Hoffer
“Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.”
– actress Billie Burke
"Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another."
~Theodore Roosevelt
“Is there a man in this world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?”
~ Sheridan Whiteside in “The Man Who Came to Dinner”
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” ~ Albert Einstein
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