Today

“It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.”

- Dorothea Lange

“Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.”

- Robert G. Ingersoll, Thomas Paine From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'

"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”

- Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

- Plato

If you should die before me, ask if you can bring a friend.

- Stone Temple Pilots, American rock group

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

- Abraham Lincoln

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”

- John Steinbeck

“Codependency is a condition wherein one has no inner life. Happiness is on the outside.”

- John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

"Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”

- William Golding, Lord of the Flies

"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

- Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses