The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along. ~ Sheri S. Tepper ~

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. ~ Harper Lee ~

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. ~ Marcel Proust ~

If you have the courage to touch #life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place. ~ U. G. Krishnamurti ~

Any social organization does well enough if it isn't rigid. The framework doesn't matter as long as there is enough looseness to permit that one man in a multitude to display his genius. Most so-called social scientists seem to think that organization is everything. It is almost nothing — except when it is a straitjacket. It is the incidence of heroes that counts, not the pattern of zeros. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Glory Road