Way Forward
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. [...]
Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
– Shari R. Barr
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward [people], but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of [...]
Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that, what have you had?
HENRY JAMES
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Seneca
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.