Powerful Quotes!!!!

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“I recommend converting Mar-a-Lago into migrant housing.
Undocumented workers have been welcome there for years.”

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"Things do not change, we change."

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"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

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"Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone."
"Obviously," replied Don Quijote, "you don't know much about adventures”

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We each “have the freedom to test all the flaws inherent in our own desires”

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Let us plant a trillion trees in celebration of the moon landing to ensure our earthscape does not become moonscape. Let the world’s military lead the charge, recognizing the climate change as a clear and present danger. -me

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“ Love is a tree
With branches
In forever
With roots
In eternity
And a trunk
Nowhere at all”

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"Getting old is like having a new profession, except it's not a profession of your own choosing”

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"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone. It has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

—Ursula K Le Guin

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“....shadows pass, only the light and love live on.”

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"I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace. I was trying to disturb the war."

—Joan Baez

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"Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people somehow (inadvertently, I’m sure) forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here...."

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“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

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"Leaves don''t drop; they just let go"

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"We do in fact love or hate our enemies to the same degree that we love or hate ourselves. In the image of the enemy we will find the mirror in which we may see our own faces most clearly."

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"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

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"It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles
do you realize that problems can be solved nonviolently"

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“The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit”

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“Don’t save up love like you’re going to retire on it. Give it away like you’re made of it.”

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“Art can make you think and feel. It doesn’t have to match your couch.”

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“Sometimes I wrestle with my demons. Sometimes we just snuggle”

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"You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you."

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“If Republicans stop telling lies about Democrats then
the Democrats will stop telling the truth about Republicans.”

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“Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.”

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"The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life…the more we involve ourselves in sadness, absurdity, and despair. But it does not matter much, because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there. Indeed, we are in the midst of it, and it is in the midst of us, for it beats in our very blood, whether we want it to or not. Yet the fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the winds, and join in the glorious dance.