Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles,
but it does ruin today's happiness.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.
David Bly
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living.
-Bertrand Russell
I didn't hear this, I read it on this group! I liked this so much I copied it and taped it above my computer.
"To be, is to do" Socrates
"To do, is to be" Sartre
"Do be do be do" Sinatra
by HippyGirl
