“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world” – Annie Lennox
“A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.”
– Primo Levi
“If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality and strength without sight” – Martin Luther King jr
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens – “The Fellowship of the Ring” JRR Tolkien (Happy Birthday Prof. Tolkien)
“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. ”
~ Barbara Kingsolver
“Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they’re not stupid, and you can’t smell their horns”
– Rutger Hauer
“The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant’s heart on the hillside.”
― James Joyce (#BloomsDay 2019)
“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”- Louisa May Alcott
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – W.B. Yeats (quote)
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” – JRR Tolkien (The Fellowship fo the Ring)
I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men’s bones – Liam O’Flaherty
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point