"The smell of a world that is burned"
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Power at its most vicious is a riposte to powerlessness.”
- Simone de Beauvoir
"Sure he (Fred Astaire) was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, ...backwards and in high heels.”
- Bob Thaves, “Frank and Ernest” comic strip
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"And nothing natural is evil"
-Marcus Aurelius
"The unexamined life is not worth living"
"Let he that would move the world first move himself"
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate"
- Socrates
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
- George Santayana
"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"And that's the thing
Do you recognize the bell of truth
When you hear it ring"
-Leon Russell
"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction."
-Lord Byron
"I've got some words to say about the way we live today.
Why can't we learn to love each other.
It's time to learn a new face for the whole world wide human race."
-Leon Russell
"We are what we repeatedly do. Therefore, excellence is not an act, but a habit."
-Aristotle
"A little learning is a dangerous thing
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring"
-Alexander Pope
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky
"I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken"
-Bob Dylan
"One who asks a question feels like a fool for a moment. One who refuses to ask a question feels a fool for a lifetime." Or, a sentient race remains a fool for millennia.
-Japanese proverb (italicized is mine)
Humanity remains a dilettante at sentience, a poser. We're on the threshold of something more, something human.
The human race is doing a fine job of acting like an animal with too much brains and too little sense. When will the human race begin acting like a human with love in its heart and sense in its head?
It's not about the individual being human. It is about the human race being human.
We will know we are human when no one desires to lead and no one desires to be led.
It is a matter of turning the fiction of our lives into a sentient reality.
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