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  • #1
    Ayn Rand
    “In learning, we draw an abstraction from concrete objects and events. In creating, we make our own concrete objects and events out of the abstraction; we bring the abstraction down and back to its specific meaning, to the concrete; but the abstraction has helped us to make the kind of concrete we want the concrete to be. It has helped us to create—to reshape the world as we wish it to be for our purposes.”
    Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

  • #2
    Erich Fromm
    “Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center of their existence, hence if each one of them experiences himself from the center of his existence. Only in this “central experience” is human reality, only here is aliveness, only here is the basis for love. Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict, joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves. There is only one proof for the presence of love: the depth of the relationship, and the aliveness and strength in each person concerned; this is the fruit by which love is recognized.”
    Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

  • #3
    Lee Iacocca
    “So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. - Lee Iacocca”
    Lee Iacocca

  • #4
    Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what
    “Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.”
    Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

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    Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain
    “Rainbows introduce us to reflections
    of different beautiful possibilities
    so we never forget that pain and grief
    are not the final options in life.”
    Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

  • #7
    Criss Jami
    “There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.”
    Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

  • #8
    C.S. Lewis
    “As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
    C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

  • #9
    Criss Jami
    “To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
    Criss Jami

  • #10
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #11
    Shannon L. Alder
    You Chose

    You chose.
    You chose.
    You chose.

    You chose to give away your love.
    You chose to have a broken heart.
    You chose to give up.
    You chose to hang on.

    You chose to react.
    You chose to feel insecure.
    You chose to feel anger.
    You chose to fight back.
    You chose to have hope.

    You chose to be naïve.
    You chose to ignore your intuition.
    You chose to ignore advice.
    You chose to look the other way.
    You chose to not listen.
    You chose to be stuck in the past.

    You chose your perspective.
    You chose to blame.
    You chose to be right.
    You chose your pride.
    You chose your games.
    You chose your ego.
    You chose your paranoia.
    You chose to compete.
    You chose your enemies.
    You chose your consequences.

    You chose.
    You chose.
    You chose.
    You chose.

    However, you are not alone. Generations of women in your family have chosen. Women around the world have chosen. We all have chosen at one time in our lives. We stand behind you now screaming:

    Choose to let go.
    Choose dignity.
    Choose to forgive yourself.
    Choose to forgive others.
    Choose to see your value.
    Choose to show the world you’re not a victim.
    Choose to make us proud.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #12
    C.S. Lewis
    “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

  • #13
    Andrew Murray
    “Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.”
    Andrew Murray

  • #14
    David Richo
    “Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.”
    David Richo, The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them

  • #15
    Erich Fromm
    “The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason.

    I must try to see the difference between my picture of a person and his behavior, as it is narcissistically distorted, and the person's reality as it exists regardless of my interests, needs and fears.”
    Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

  • #16
    William Faulkner
    “It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.”
    William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying



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