Barbarity

"Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can." — Richard Hughes

Story

"When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else."

— Iyanla Vanzant 

Then and Now Broken Men

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

-Frederick Douglass

People Wait.

"People wait.

They wait for the elusive day when they'll finally have enough time (guess what? - you never will), enough education (there's always more to know), enough money (no matter how much you make, someone will always have more) . . . People wait until that fateful day when they wake up and realize that while they were sitting around paying dues, earning their keep, waiting for that elusive 'perfect time' their entire life has passed them by."

-The Power of Doing Something Stupid by Richie Norton

Ordinary Things

"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."

 | Pema Chödrön

Lesson 153

In my defenselessness my safety lies. 

"You who feel threatened by this changing world, its twists of fortune and its bitter jests, its brief relationships and all the "gifts" it merely lends to take away again; attend this lesson well...."

-Course of Miracles, lesson 153

Gatsby

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had." — 

Opening Line from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald