Mary Heron

“The Hitler tyranny was doomed. Here, then, we might pause in thankfulness and take hope, not only for victory on all fronts and in all three elements, but also for a safe and happy future for tormented mankind.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

“They came to us and grabbed my friend's bag, and one of them started beating him on the head with a stick. That friend punched the guy who grabbed him, and together, we started running toward that dry creek. We ran for our lives. Those guys, who were Gaza citizens, entered through breaches in the fence and apparently came to rob us or kidnap us.”
― Alon Pentzel, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023

“Doreen Valiente wrote the Charge Of The Goddess…Gerald Gardner's books of rites show the Charge developing in the 1940s and early 1950s from a pastiche of Crowley's writing to one of Charles Godfrey Leland and Crowley. What Doreen did was to keep the Leland, which she thought more authentic, put in a new framework, and write the “White Moon Charge”, which is wholly original in its words, although its basic form, of a universal nature goddess identified with the moon and addressing her devotees, is based on Apuleius's "Metamorphoses", from ancient Rome.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way…It is this spiritual freedom—which cannot be taken away—that makes life meaningful and purposeful.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning