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"A riot is the language of the unheard." [MLK]

The Gospel promoted by the sword is not the Gospel.

-Martin Luther

“A people that does not take care of its elderly and children and youth has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.” - Pope Francis Bergoglio

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love." -Washington Irving

"Temptation is an irresistable force at work on a moveable body." H.L.Mencken

Go hump a rabbit.

-Charles Bukowski, from his book, Pulp.

"Evil is a lack of empathy, a total incapacity to feel with their fellow man." - Capt. Gilbert,Psychiatrist, at the end of Nuremberg trials.

"I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil.
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun." -Ecclesiastes 2:10-11

"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don’t." - Earl Wilson

"Sensing my feelings of love and high emotional intensity, you still wish to pursue me with passion and amour?"

"My dreams are going through their death flurries. They are dying before the steel javelins and arrows of a world of Time and Money." ~ Barbara Newhall Follett, 1930

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel." -Steve Furtick

[addressed to the loneliest one]-
"'There is in certain living souls a loneliness unspeakable. So great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine and know by this that in immensity there's one lonelier than you.'
Perhaps in the end all that matters is this: and for those who are lonely enough, long enough... that even to the loneliness there is an end..."
[Theodore Sturgeon- Feb 26, 1918 - May 08, 1985]

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." -George Bernard Shaw

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it." -Vincent van Gogh, painter (30 Mar 1853-1890)

"Even if you can spot the six sign of mental grievances, I can only restore you if you help me place your inner trust in them"