Jim

“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.”
― Robert Frost

“You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one.”
― Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light

“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”
― Robert Frost