Kelly

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust”
― John Webster

“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
― Howard Zinn

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
― Toni Morrison

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde