"Someone can be doing terrible things and still be a victim--can have done wrong and still deserve help."--David Kennedy

Apologizing doesn't mean that you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value the relationship more than your ego.--unknown

"We believe not only in universal tolerance, but we accept all religions as true. As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different paths which men take through different tendencies various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God." ~ Swami Vivekananda

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
— Dalai Lama

‎"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly." - Woody Allen

‎"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters." - Alan Simpson

The freedom that comes with boundaries is that we can allow other people to own their own behavior, actions and reactions to our choices and we are not responsible for their attitudes. This cuts down on a lot of drama.--Cherilyn Clough.

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. - Isaac Asimov

Other than telling us how to die, live, think, marry, pray, vote, invest and educate our children I think the Republicans have done a fine job of getting government out of our personal lives.--unknown

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you
could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget
them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well
and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with
your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed) US
essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

From: We survived Bush. You will survive Obama.
It's very inauthentic during a conversation for a person to demand 'evidence'. As if I drag a filing cabinet around with me filled with all of the random facts of life. Quite smug. How about a little good faith? I have a grand idea, we each make a list of any contested points, and after the conversation we can go and verify them together. Any facts proven wrong cost $5 each, payable on the spot. Bring your wallet.

‎"Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world. We can do this even at the most difficult moments. Everything we see, hear, taste, and smell has the power to strengthen and uplift us." - Pema Chodron

"What if imagination and art are not frosting, but the fountainhead of human expirience?" Rollo May

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.