Quote of the Month; April 2020
“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
~ Dorothy Day; american journalist, social activist, anarchist and servant of god.
“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
~ Dorothy Day; american journalist, social activist, anarchist and servant of god.
“Reality is only a term, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.”
~ Ian Curtis; british singer-songwriter and musician.
“The main thing in life is survival. And survival is not just staying alive. It is also a constant effort to grow and to learn and to work.”
~ Vincent Price; american actor.
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
– Maya Angelou; american poet, singer, memoirist and civil rights activist.
“I must learn to love the fool in me–the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of my human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my Fool.”
– Theodore Isaac Rubin; american psychiatrist and author.
“The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality, both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.”
~Wilhelm Reich; austrian psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and innovative iconoclast.
“We don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.”
~Donald McPherson; american academic speaker and former sports player.
“…the magic of the writer is to become a second person narrator, floating in the background,
fragmented flesh embeds in memory as shrapnel might act an irritant…”
~$; cursed remains of an offal humanity…
“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class, it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”
~ Anna Julia Cooper; american author, educator, black rights activist and scholar.
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
~ Charles Dickens; british author and social critic.