Michelle

“Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

“When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.”
― Joel Salatin, Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front

“ Those who guide us, who inspire us, having gone our way before, are now partners with us in building a better world. Any success we have is theirs as well as ours. To copy or imitate them should be only the beginning-the apprentice stage of life. It is fine to think, "what will a Shaker do? What would Scott Nearing have said? What would Gandhi have thought?" These are good exercises for the mind, a way of weighing ideas and contemplated actions, valuable so long as we do not follow anyone blindly.
Only by standing on their shoulders can we build a better world, but we should use the wise as advisers, not masters.”
― William S. Coperthwaite, A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity

“When we merely follow another, we take a potentially creative mind out of service-our own. ”
― William S. Coperthwaite, A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity