Today

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

- Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

- Dr. Seuss

“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”

- Dejan Stojanovic

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower.

Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud,

It does not allow the dirt that surrounds it

To affect its growth or beauty.

- Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun

"My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you."

- Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

Now the years are rolling by me
They are rocking evenly
And I am older than I once was
And younger than I'll be
But that's not unusual

- Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, The Boxer

A fading day moves into the twilight.

"If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant."

- Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

"I cannot imagine a God, who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty."

- Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies XIII

“You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequences of your choice.”

- Zig Ziglar